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This has nothing to do with grammar.
Doesn’t matter, it’s a very useful list to counter tik-tok brain damage.
Stop saying very
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Not grammar
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A lot of these have different connotations
It is definitely not a grammatical issue, but it a good rule of thumb for writing, particularly academic writing. One of the first things that was drilled into me as an English major was to drop, “very,” and find a better adjective.
Also, yeah, a lot of these are very poor matches, especially without context, but one of my favorite things about the English language is that it is a very large, redundant language, but none of our words have the exact same connotation. Big, large, huge, enormous, gigantic, tremendous, mammoth, gargantuan, and humongous are all technically synonyms, but all conjure different images in the reader.
But yeah, telling someone to say, “fragile,” instead of, “very weak,” is dumb, given they could mean, “delicate,” or, “feeble.” And if you’re not writing a term paper, just say, “very.”
Yeah, “idle” is much milder than “very lazy” imo
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Me very meticulously checking every word to see why this in in shitpost.
The shitpost was that we both wasted our time
Verily
You can put ‘very’ before every suggested alternative. What then?
When very then?
Some of them feel better than others. Very boiling is kinda weird.
Very powerful works imo.
I am a fan of putting “very” in front of everything in the suggested list.
Damn honey, you look boiling in that outfit!
Looking at you makes me challenging!
I’m very delighted
*I’m hard
Verility confirmed
Very very.
Very useful
veruseful
Legit criticism! But hear me out. Who remembers all those different words anyway?
Instead of NOT using “very”, I say we ONLY use “very”.
It’s a very idea!
The veryist of ideas. Bigley very
That’s so aladeen of you
This is actually a very good lesson in grammar
This post is very interesting.
*Intriguing.
This post is very intriguing.
*captivating.
This post is very captivating.
*mesmerizing.
Borat very nice!
Very -> Verraily
Veraiously?
99.99 % ≠ 100 %
