Elementary Level >> Vocabulary Worksheets >> Mini review of the rules concerning gradeable and absolute adjectives followed by an exercise to put adjectives from a mixed list into the correct category.
Absolute Adjectives
Gradeable Adjectives are those before which we can use words like "quite", "very" and "a little".
Examples of these are words like hungry and beautiful.
Absolute Adjectives are those before which we can use words like "absolutely", and "totally".
Examples of these are words like starving and gorgeous.
Look at this list of adjectives. Some of them are gradeable and some are absolute. But which is which? Put each adjective into the correct box.
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poor scared cold embarrassing delicious humiliating terrified boiling astonished |
hot horrible freezing penniless tasty disgusting furious surprised angry |
| Gradeable Adjectives |
| Absolute Adjectives |
