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Extreme English: Exaggeration Guide

This document discusses ways to use extreme or exaggerated English for emphasis or effect. It provides examples of exaggerating descriptions of things like time, amounts of people or money, sizes of houses or insects, levels of pain or enjoyment. Exaggerated language is appropriate in informal situations but not formal ones. Key words and phrases include "ages", "thousands of people", "tons of money", "huge house", "gigantic insect", "killing me", and "totally awesome". Extreme English exaggerates for emphasis rather than literal accuracy.

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Extreme English: Exaggeration Guide

This document discusses ways to use extreme or exaggerated English for emphasis or effect. It provides examples of exaggerating descriptions of things like time, amounts of people or money, sizes of houses or insects, levels of pain or enjoyment. Exaggerated language is appropriate in informal situations but not formal ones. Key words and phrases include "ages", "thousands of people", "tons of money", "huge house", "gigantic insect", "killing me", and "totally awesome". Extreme English exaggerates for emphasis rather than literal accuracy.

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  • Extreme English Concepts: Explores the use of extreme English with exercises to express intensity, such as 'long' vs. 'endless' and other exaggerated adjectives.
  • Exaggeration Examples: Demonstrates further examples of using extreme adjectives to describe favorite things or situations.

Extreme English

1.In extreme English, we could say: "This class is ____________."

long endless
2.To exaggerate, we could say: "There were  ____________ people
waiting to enter the store before the Christmas sale."

thousands of many twenty-three


3.Which is the exaggerated version?

I haven't seen him in a long time! I haven't seen him in ages!


4.Exaggerate the following sentence:
She has ___________ of money.

tons a lot millions and millions


5.If you wanted to exaggerate, you would say:
My sister has a ____________ house.

big huge pretty big rather large


6.In extreme English, the insect on your wall is ____________.

large gigantic scary


7.When you exaggerate, you say your favorite female star is
____________.

gorgeous pretty
8.Exaggerate the following sentence for effect:
These new shoes are ____________ me!

hurting killing

9.In extreme English, we'd probably say:


This new rock band is ____________ awesome.

very totally somewhat great

10.We use exaggerated or extreme English in ____________


situations only.

formal informal

Extreme English 1.In extreme English, we could say: "This class is ____________." long endless 2.To exaggerate, we could say:
7.When you exaggerate, you say your favorite female star is ____________. gorgeous pretty 8.Exaggerate the following sentenc

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