tailieunhanh - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 43

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 43', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Discourse choices for degree adverbs as modifiers 565 Table Distribution of most common amplifiers immediately preceding adjectives in BrE and AmE conversation and in academic prose occurrences per million words each represents 50 BrE CONV AmE CONV ACAD very so really too real completely absolutely totally damn bloody extremely highly entirely fully Other amplifiers occurring c. 10 times per million words incredibly perfectly strongly terribly. In contrast to conversation academic prose makes more frequent use of the amplifiers entirely extremely fully highly and strongly. But the publication of Darwin s theory of biological evolution gave an entirely new stimulus to the elaboration of organicist theories acad Indeed it is extremely difficult to establish any truly satisfactory system of defining the limits of these functions acad The office slave boasts a waist and slender figure while the navvy rolls along a fully developed man of bone and muscle acad The highly complex process of adjustment to infection is determined by many variables acad When both calmodulin and GTP are present a strongly biphasic curve is produced with a peak activity at x 10 4m. acad Most of these amplifiers are used to express the degree of intensity of a specific characteristic newness difficulty development complexity and biphasicity in the above examples. In academic prose there are fewer collocations with the more general positive or negative value judgments found in conversation. Three of the most common amplifiers frequently occur in both conversation and academic prose very so and too. These degree adverbs are used with a large 566 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS variety of adjectives though in conversation the most common collocates with very are again general positive words good nice That sounds very good conv He s a very nice person and I like him. conv AmE and BrE conversation are similar in their common collocates with too bad big and late. However BrE conversation shows more of