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b Read the text and answer the following
questions.
1 Which disease is Ricky suffering from?
• Fairly, rather, quite and pretty are called
2 When was his memory loss disease
degree modifiers. They are placed directly in
diagnosed?
front of adjectives or adverbs to add to their
meaning and make their meaning stronger.
3 What does he do to plan his daily
pretty hot
activities?
rather hot
4 Why is he carrying a card in his wallet?
quite hot
5 What is the worst thing he is faced fairly hot
with?
hot
6 Does he have a future plan?
e.g. Japanese is quite a difficult language
c Skim the text and find degree modifiers to learn.
for the adjectives and adverbs below. Slow down! You are driving pretty fast!
1 interesting • Quite and rather are also used to degree the
2 well verbs and nouns.
3 difficult e.g. The children quite/rather enjoyed the
4 talented garden party yesterday.
d Scan the text. Find and write three more
sentences in which Ricky’s past abilities • When we talk about general ability in the
and inabilities are mentioned. past, we use could. However, if we talk
about ability on one particular occasion,
e.g. When he was a child, he couldn’t
we use was/were able to (=managed to).
communicate with others until the
e.g. When he was six, Joe could speak
age of 7.
German fluently.
1 Little kids were able to survive the
flood. (=managed to survive)
• When we talk about inability on one
2 particular occasion, we can use couldn’t,
wasn’t/weren’t able to or didn’t manage to.
e.g. Zoë couldn’t finish/wasn’t able to
3 finish/didn’t manage to finish the
project work on her own.
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