Timeline for Is using the word "very" always allowed or is it better to limit the usage?
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| Jun 22, 2019 at 19:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 22, 2019 at 18:03 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 14:05 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It can get very annoying if very many people use "very" very very often. | |
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| Jan 24, 2019 at 7:54 | comment | added | overkill22 | You're right @BoldBen, in fact also "really" is another of those words I use frequently and I feel it's becoming too frequent. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 11:22 | answer | added | Stuart F | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 11:21 | comment | added | BoldBen | There are (very) many close synonyms for "very" but most of them are longer words and some of them are much less universal than "very". Examples include "extremely", "deeply"(in the case of "sad" or "moved"); "greatly" (but only when constructing descriptive phrases with verbs as in "greatly pleased", "greatly saddened" and so on); "enormously" (although "enormously happy" might be thought a bit odd); "really" is useful but would soon become at least as tiresome as "very". Try looking up synonyms for "very" on line and practice using them, but don't worry too much about it in speech. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 11:10 | answer | added | CrimsonDark | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 9:42 | comment | added | overkill22 | I see what you mean, it does make sense. How can I stress on the adjectives without using very? | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 9:41 | history | edited | overkill22 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2019 at 15:01 | comment | added | Literalman | My feeling is that it's more acceptable in speech than in writing, though certainly it could be overused in speech. A long time ago I studied journalistic writing. Writers were told to change every "very" to "damn," the editor would take them all out, and you'd have a better piece of writing. (This a was tongue-in-cheek way of telling writers never to use "very.") | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 12:06 | comment | added | Lawrence | The examples you cite look ok. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 11:02 | history | asked | overkill22 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |