In English we very often use adverbs with adjectives – it’s a common pattern you want to notice and learn from. We use the structure mostly when we want to emphasise something.
There a number of words we use in this way – some of the most common are
really
especially
particularly
fairly
slightly
So we can be emphatic in this way:
The park where I live is beautiful [no emphasis]
The park where I live is especially beautiful [emphasis]
A grammatical problem
One problem with this is that in English we make a difference between adjectives that are gradable and non-gradable. Put simply this means we can say
absolutely boiling
fairly old
but not
absolutely old
fairly boiling
This can be a little tricky and you’ll find a link at the bottom of the page with more help.
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