2018-05-29 Grammar: intensifiers and too/enough

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework (optional): p. 119-120 exercises 13 and 14 - complete the paragraphs with gerunds or infinitives.
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Are you a workaholic? Ask your partner the questions on p. 125 of the new handout. How many “yes” answers do you have?
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-aholic and -oholic are used with a lot of different nouns to mean someone who is addicted to (or really likes) something
alcoholic
workaholic
chocoholic
shopaholic
(Informally, this is a productive ending, because you can put it on a new word and people will have no problem understanding you. However, very few formal words exist like this.)
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This week: Intensifiers and degree complements.
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intensifier = a word that makes another word stronger (really, very, extemely, rather)
	(We could also include words that make others weaker, like “somewhat” and “slightly”.)
degree complement = a complement (phrase at the end of a sentence) that gives a consequence of the degree of another word
	This is too expensive to buy. = This is so expensive that I can’t buy it.
		= It’s not cheap enough to afford.
	This is so expensive that I would need to take out a loan to buy it.
	This is such an expensive car that I could buy a house for the same price.
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These both can answer “how + adjective/adverb” questions, or “how much/many”.
p. 127 exercise 2 - With your partner, underline the degree complements and then write a “how” question for each one.
1 How rushed is Denise (at work these days)?
2 How much energy does she have (at the end of the workday)?
3 How busy is she?
  (“How lonely is she feeling?” asks about the intensifier phrase.)
4 How much is (there) going on at work?
5 How fast do things move?
6 How slowly does her administrative assistant work?
7 How hard does Peter work?
8 How dedicated is he (to his job)?
9 How much does he love his family?
10 How competitive is he (about his job)?
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http://www.learnersdictionary.com - An English-English dictionary designed for language learners (so the words in the definitions usually aren’t too difficult).
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Homework: p. 129 exercise 3 - Write sentences with intensifiers that are true for you. (Read p. 128 for help with the meaning of different intensifiers.)