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

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie"
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > Kemper now:
> > I think intensifiers are a part of grammar: usually an adverb
> > adverbing another adverb.
> > 
> > ::::::::::::::::::::::
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > ...
> 
> Magpie:
> I don't think he meant he were an official part of speech as 
> in "these are the 8 parts of speech." But a word can act as an 
> intensifier so the word's just descriptive--if the word is 
> intensifying something in a sentence it's an intensifier. 
> 
> As Lolly Jr. says in the schoolhouse rock song about adverbs:
> "... Suppose your house needs painting -- how are 
> you going to paint it? That's where the adverb comes in. We 
> can also give you a special intensifier ...."
> 
> -m
>

bboyminn:

Magpie is correct, I wasn't implying that 'intensifier' is a
literally defined and categorical part of English grammar. 

I was merely describing how the word 'pretty' acts when used
in the context I established. To say 'pretty good' is no 
different than saying 'good'. Pretty acts to intensify how
'good' you feel, and by extention it is, therefore, an
intensifier; and intensifier being that which intensifies.

Steve/bboyminn