Skyrocket EnglishB2 · ponto 3
Adjetivos e advérbios avançados: collocations (deeply moved, highly recommended), advérbios de comentário (admittedly, undoubtedly) e adjetivos extremos.
Adjetivos graduáveis (good, cold, tired) combinam com very, extremely, fairly, rather. Adjetivos extremos (fantastic, freezing, exhausted, terrified) combinam com absolutely, utterly, completely, totally. Não diga “very fantastic”.
| Normal | Extremo | Intensificador |
|---|---|---|
| good | fantastic, superb | absolutely superb |
| bad | terrible, awful | utterly awful |
| tired | exhausted | completely exhausted |
| cold | freezing | absolutely freezing |
| big | enormous, huge | truly enormous |
| interested | fascinated | totally fascinated |
Atenção: Com really e pretty os dois tipos funcionam: “really good”, “really fantastic”. Mas very e extremely só com adjetivos graduáveis.
Muitos advérbios formam combinações fixas com certos adjetivos: deeply moved, highly recommended, bitterly disappointed, fully aware, perfectly clear, strictly forbidden, painfully slow, utterly ridiculous. Há ainda advérbios de comentário, que expressam a atitude de quem fala e geralmente abrem a frase: undoubtedly, admittedly, frankly, fortunately, inevitably, apparently, surprisingly.
Admittedly, the hotel was expensive, but it was perfectly located.
É verdade que o hotel era caro, mas ficava em um local perfeito.
The book is highly recommended.
O livro é altamente recomendado.
Frankly, I'm not impressed.
Francamente, não estou impressionado.
Atenção: A posição do advérbio muda o sentido: “She only said hello” (só disse oi) × “She said hello only to me”. E cuidado com adjetivos que terminam em -ly (friendly, lovely, lonely): não são advérbios; use “in a friendly way”.
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