{"id":7288,"date":"2014-03-24T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2014-03-24T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:07:11","slug":"intensifying-with-an-adverb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2014\/03\/24\/intensifying-with-an-adverb\/","title":{"rendered":"Intensifying With An Adverb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gotmesh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/keep-calm-and-learn-english-57.png\" width=\"216\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are certain words that serve a function of intensifying that have very limited collocations.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some of them only occur with one possible word. It&#8217;s what&#8217;s called a very strong collocation, or a &#8220;word partnership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Study the list of these partnerships below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Look at them. They&#8217;re <strong>madly in love<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They&#8217;re twins, but they&#8217;re <strong>radically different<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It&#8217;s safer where medicine and doctors are <strong>readily available<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Leaving her is something I <strong>deeply regret<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The war is an event they still <strong>bitterly resent<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>If you think you&#8217;re finished then you&#8217;re <strong>sadly mistaken<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The two religious leaders are <strong>deeply divided<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The prisoners managed to <strong>narrowly escape<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>If you help me I&#8217;ll be <strong>eternally grateful.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I want you to know that I&#8217;m <strong>terribly sorry<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I want to see the kitchen <strong>spotlessly clean<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The stock market is <strong>fiercely competitive<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t tell anyone &#8211; it&#8217;s <strong>strictly confidential<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Is that what you <strong>truly believe<\/strong>?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>She is someone I <strong>sorely miss<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The UFO conspiracy is still <strong>hotly debated<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I know it&#8217;s just marketing, but I think they <strong>genuinely care<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All we can do is <strong>sincerely hope<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Your guests <strong>anxiously await<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>She thought no one would notice but it was <strong>glaringly obvious<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It&#8217;s possible, but I <strong>seriously doubt<\/strong> it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They don&#8217;t know for sure. Right now it&#8217;s <strong>pure conjecture<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The scientist&#8217;s research was <strong>sharply criticized<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Their technology is <strong>vastly superior<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Starting the conflict is something they <strong>vehemently deny<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t worry about that. At your age it&#8217;s <strong>perfectly normal<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The two concepts are <strong>diametrically opposed<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference:<strong> Como Dizer Tudo em Ingl\u00eas Avan\u00e7ado<\/strong>, de Ron Martinez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2014\/03\/keep-calm-and-learn-english-57-300x350.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2014\/03\/keep-calm-and-learn-english-57-300x350.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2014\/03\/keep-calm-and-learn-english-57.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p>There are certain words that serve a function of intensifying that have very limited collocations. In fact, some of them only occur with one possible word. It&#8217;s what&#8217;s called a very strong collocation, or a &#8220;word partnership&#8221;. Study the list of these partnerships below. Look at them. They&#8217;re madly in love. They&#8217;re twins, but they&#8217;re&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2014\/03\/24\/intensifying-with-an-adverb\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[225062],"tags":[226730],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermediario","tag-artigos-vocabulario"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}