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[Carol]

Cabal wrote:
> Unless it's some UK or other English speaking country rule.
> 
> As a U.S. English Teacher (secondary) I can assure you that there is
no such part of grammer.
> 
> An adverb modifying an adverb is an adverb.
> 
> Anyway, I hope you where joking, but if not, then no such
part-of-speech.

Carol responds:

"Intensifier" isn't a part of speech, true, but some adverbs do serve
as intensifiers (also known as intensive adverbs). An intensifier
modifies either adjectives or other adverbs or both but isn't used to
modify verbs. Examples include "pretty," "really," "fairly," and
"very." "Intensifier" is, IMO, a misnomer since "pretty" and "fairly"
weaken rather than intensify the term they modify. Steve didn't make
it up. Neither did I. Possibly it's borrowed from other languages(?).
Geoff, does Latin have intensifiers? I've forgotten.

Here's a link to a web page that explains the concept simply:

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnIntensifier.htm

A google search for "intensifier grammar" (no quotes) will provide
many others.

Carol, who also taught English and never used the term "intensifier,"
either, mainly because "adverb" was sufficient for grammar-resistant
students