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Keywords: quantity adverbs, extremism, linguistic

Abstract

In many grammer books there are words not identified as quantity adverbs but used forthe purpose of adjectives. Each of those words have different meanings. Words like weird,unbelievable, terrible, great are used as and in the meaning of quantity adverbs "too many", "alotof", that are used to express extremism. The usages like "I terribly like it." or "unbelievablybeautiful" are found strange and they are thought to come from translation. In the paper thesekind of usages are stressed