General English Level 4 Version 2.1 © 2004 acl Pty Ltd GELEV4 Unit 05 Topic 03.doc Examples Listen to the examples. 1. Did they have a good holiday? Yes. They loved the hotel they stayed at. 2. What did you think of the performance? Oh, I hated it. It was really boring. 3. How was the party? Good. I enjoyed seeing everyone. 4. That was a terrible exhibition, wasn't it? Do you think so? I didn't mind it. 3. Modifiers Jackie says: Jackie: …I felt quite disappointed. I mean, they can't sing. Jackie says: Jackie: ... after the first hour I was pretty bored. Jackie uses quite to say how disappointed she was and pretty to say how bored she was. In these sentences pretty and quite are modifiers. We can use modifiers to modify (change the meaning of) adjectives - to show how strong our feelings are. Look thoroughly really very - - - pretty quite a little positive negative I was wasn’t at all excited. 167