Nice and Interesting for a Small fortune which is Pretty good.

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cabal" <md at ...> wrote:
 
Steve/bluewizard:
> "Pretty" serves as an intensifier for the statement.

md:
> ???
> 
> "Pretty" is an adverb and adjective and a noun... what the hell is an
> intensifier, I teach English, never heard of any such thing :-D
> 
> That's a pretty dress. Adjective
> That's a pretty, damned mean thing to do. Adverb.
> Not now, my pretty. Noun.

Geoff:
Surely, your adverb example isn't.

"Thing" is a noun and "pretty", "damned" and "mean" are all 
referring to it. hence they are adjectives.

I think a suitable example of adverbial usage would be "you did 
that job pretty quickly.".