GRADABLE AND NON-GRADABLE ADJECTIVES | English with GRAMMAR MAN
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The focus of today’s lesson is on how to correctly use adjectives with modifiers, and I’m also going to help you to expand your descriptive vocabulary.
There are two types of adjectives.
We have gradable, and non-gradable adjectives.
Some common examples of gradable adjectives include:
old, small, big, hungry, beautiful, embarrassed, etc.
Some common non-gradable adjectives, include:
ancient, enormous, gorgeous/stunning, thrilled, terrified, delicious, etc.
All that gradable/un-gradable means is that gradable adjectives can be measured, we can say how cold, or how tall, or how hot something is. He is quite tall, he is very tall, he is extremely tall. We can change the level of tallness by adding certain modifying words, the most common include the following:
a bit/slightly,
quite/rather/fairly,
very/really,
extremely, incredibly
With non-gradable adjectives, we cannot modify in the same way. We cannot change the level. We can’t change the degree of the adjective. We cannot say something is a little bit enormous, or very enormous, or extremely enormous.
We can add emphasis, and say it is absolutely enormous, but we can’t answer the question ‘how enormous is it’. There isn’t a range.
The way we modify these non-gradable adjectives is we can add emphasis using these common adverbs here:
absolutely,
completely,
totally,
utterly,
really,
exceptionally, etc.
So, for example, you might say:
This rock is really ancient, or This cake is absolutely delicious, or she is utterly terrified of snakes.
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Hi everyone, I hope that you find this video useful - gradable and non gradable adjectives.
The graded reader books really are a key to expanding your vocabulary, so do research these or check out my links in the description above.
Have a great day, cheers!
Thanks for the awesome lesson. It really helps to understand English better!
I'm learning English step by step and this is by far the best video about gradable and non gradable adjectives that we have here in RUclips. I hope you are ok teacher. Thanks a lot for this video! We really appreciated!
I am an English teacher too and I was struggling to explain this to my student. Your video was very very clear and it made my day! Thank you for sharing such valuable content!
The lesson was incredibly clear :)
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Super important lesson. It definitely changed me from 50% to absolutely 💯% up my knowledge of English.
Just a question
But I hear quite often I'm incredibly thrilled...
So what is is that?
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Thanks for the video. Here is my question:
''mesmerising and tranquil'' are they extreme adjectives as well?
extremely peaceful=tranquil
extremely amusing=mesmerising
Am I correct?
"tranquil" often collocates with "incredibly". It is an incredibly tranquil location.
Therefore, it is possible to grade "tranquil".
"mesmerising" often collocates with "absolutely". The waterfall was absolutely mesmerising.
But you could also say "the waterfall was incredibly mesmerising" (and therefore demonstrate that you can, in fact, grade mesmerising.)
There are a myriad of adjectives in the English language and unfortunately they don't all fit perfectly into the "gradable" or "upgradable" box.
I tried to cover the most common adjectives that students use incorrectly in this video lesson-in hindsight, I should have added the little disclaimer mentioned above during the lesson ;)
The best way to do become aware of adjective/modifier collocations, is by reading books graded to your level ('graded reader books' link in the description under this video) or by listening to native speakers, watching movies, documentaries etc. As you are aware of what is meant by "gradable" and "non-gradable" adjectives, you will notice these collocations between each adjective and it's modifier, which means instead of just seeing words on a page, you will recognise parts of speech. If you want to take it a step further you could even highlight collocations as you read your book, to help speed up your learning.
Hope that answers your question :)
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Please bring topic on Direct and indirect speech
great video!
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Teacher, when we come a cross an adjective first time, how can sort it out? Can I buy a good grammar book?
it's a difficult topic. there're lots of collocations that are to be memorised and they help not to be confused between gradable and non-gradable adjectives and not to make mistakes. Because for me many adjectives are confusing concerning this topic. I would say "extremely talented"(though " talented" is a non-gradable adjective, isnt it?) So I tell it incorrectly?
Hi Dina. Yes, you are correct, there are a lot of collocations to learn when it come to gradable and non-gradable adjectives. The best way to do this is by reading books graded to your level ('graded reader books' link in the description under this video) or by listening to native speakers, watching movies, documentaries etc. As you are aware of what is meant by 'gradable' and 'non-gradable' adjectives, you will notice these collocations between each adjective and it's modifier, which means instead of just seeing words on a page, you will recognise parts of speech. If you want to take it a step further you could even highlight collocations as you read your book, to help speed up your learning.
* 'talent' is gradable. It passes the test: 'talent' has a comparative and superlative form (talented/more talented/the most talented), and you can also say: 'He is very talented.'
So your collocation, 'extremely talented' is correct (see second example sentence in the link) www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/talented
Thanks for a detailed reply, and for sharing the tests thanks a lot 👍
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but i can say more delicious
this food is more delicious than that of other restaurant ....
Ridiculous, native English speakers say things like very gorgeous or extremely terrified all the time.
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