Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 07 - Vocabulary - Extreme adjectives for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Match the extreme adjectives from the news articles with an ordinary adjective.
  2. Why do you think writers use extreme adjectives? Look back at the texts on page 70 for examples.

Answer

a)

  1. b
  2. d
  3. c
  4. e
  5. a

b)

Writers use extreme adjectives to make what they are writing more interesting and descriptive, and to avoid overusing the word 'very'.