2015-12-01 Grammar: workaholics

Greg Malivuk
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“Here’s your hat. What’s your hurry?”
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alcoholic
- shopaholic, workaholic, sexaholic, chocoholic
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p. 125 - ask these questions with your partner. Do they describe you or someone you know?
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p. 126
intensifiers: adverbs like “very” that make an adjective or adverb stronger or weaker (they change the intensity of the word)
She is extremely late to work. (This is stronger than just “late”.)
She is somewhat late to work. (This is weaker than just “late”.)

degree complements: the degree of an adjective or adverb has some consequence
She is so slow that she will have to come in on Sunday. (so + adjective/adverb)
= She is such a slow worker that she will have to come in on Sunday. (such + modified noun)

She is too late to come to class. (= She is so late that she can’t come to class.)
She is early enough to come to class. (She is early, and this means she can come to class.)
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Homework: p. 126-7, exercises 1 and 2 (underline the intensifiers in exercise 1 and the degree complements in exercise 2)