Practice identifying adverbs of degree and understanding their intensity. Click below to print or save as a PDF.

Worksheet 1: Degree Adverbs

Name: _________________________ Date: _________________________

1. Identification Exercise

Read each sentence and write down the degree adverb.

The soup is very hot.:

He was quite surprised by the news.:

The test was extremely difficult.:

I am almost finished with my work.:

She is rather busy at the moment.:

This is barely enough food for everyone.:

Sort the degree adverbs below into the correct intensity category.

very, a bit, extremely, fairly, somewhat, absolutely, rather, slightly

Write a sentence using a high-intensity degree adverb and another sentence using a low-intensity one.

High Intensity: _________________________________________

Low Intensity: __________________________________________