| Degree with adjectives | very goes with gradable adjectives, absolutely with extreme ones | It's very cold. / It's absolutely freezing. |
| Quite | quite means fairly before a gradable adjective, completely before an extreme one | It's quite good. / I'm quite sure. |
| Degree with verbs | most precede the verb; very much and a lot follow it | I totally agree. / I like it very much. |
| Focus | a focus adverb stands next to the word it focuses on | Only Tom came. / Tom came only on Monday. |
| Still and no longer | still continues; no longer and any more end | She still lives here. / She no longer lives here. |
| Sentence adverbs | they comment on the whole sentence; a comma follows at the start | Luckily, nobody was hurt. |
| C1Downtoners | hardly, scarcely and barely are negative: no second negative | I can hardly see. |
| C1Collocations | the intensifier follows the meaning of the adjective | highly unlikely / deeply concerned |
| C1Stance adverbs | they show how sure or how fair the speaker is | Arguably, it is her best book. |
| C2Formal adverbs | formal prose adds adverbs such as invariably and exceedingly | He invariably arrives early. / She was exceedingly kind. |
| C2Position | an adverb follows the first auxiliary; before it for emphasis | It has quite clearly been a success. / He certainly has. |
| Trap | an extreme adjective takes absolutely or really | The soup is absolutely delicious. |