| <html><p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspfirst=""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Some adjectives can be categorised as 'gradable' or 'non-gradable'. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>We use gradable adjectives for qualities that vary in intensity or degree. We can ask the question, 'How..?'</span></b></p><p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspfirst=""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>How <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">hot</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">big</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">important</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">strong</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">old</span> is it? </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>With non-gradable adjectives, there is no question of degree. For example, a person is either <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">dead</span> or not; a cup is either <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">full</span> or not. For this reason, extreme adjectives are also non-gradable as are classifying adjectives such as <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">electrical</span>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">wooden</span> or <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">indoor</span>. </span></b></p><p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" |