📄️ Fairly
We use fairly as an adverb meaning ‘in a way which is right and just’:
📄️ Intensifiers (very, at all)
Intensifiers are adverbs or adverbial phrases that strengthen the meaning of other expressions and show emphasis. Words that we commonly use as intensifiers include absolutely, completely, extremely, highly, rather, really, so, too, totally, utterly, very and at all:
📄️ Much, a lot, lots, a good deal: adverbs
We use much, a lot, lots and a good deal as adverbs to refer to frequency, quantity and degree.
📄️ Pretty
We can use pretty as an adverb, before an adjective or another adverb, meaning ‘quite, but not extremely’. It is informal:
📄️ Quite
Quite is a degree adverb. It has two meanings depending on the word that follows it
📄️ Rather
We use rather as a degree adverb (rather cold, rather nice). We also use it to express alternatives and preferences (green rather than blue, coffee rather than tea, slowly rather than quickly).
📄️ Really
We use the adverb really when we want to emphasise something:
📄️ Scarcely
Scarcely means ‘almost not at all’. It is quite formal. It usually comes in the normal mid position for adverbs (between the subject and the main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb):
📄️ Very
Very before adverbs and adjectives