Talk:very much

Adjective ? --Béotien lambda 08:06, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

• Fixed (you could have fixed it yourself). SemperBlotto 08:09, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

...kept Manchester United’s hopes very much alive.

Isn't it modifying the adjective alive in the example of the entry? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:07, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

I’m very much afraid that your son may be involved in the crime. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:31, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

adverb: much

isn't much itself a synonym? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:11, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

very much so

An emphatic way of answering 'yes' --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:47, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Comparative "more", superlative "most"

Like much, isn't its comparative more, and superlative most ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:25, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Modifying adjectives

Past participles that have become established as adjectives can, like most English adjectives, be modified by the adverb very. However, there is rarely any objection to the use of an intervening adverb, no matter how the past participle is functioning. Such use often occurs in edited writing: We were very much relieved to find the children asleep. They were very greatly excited by the news. I feel very badly cheated. --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:07, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Used with adjuncts and noun groups

Page 307 of Cobuild English Usage reads

You use very much in front of adjuncts, not 'very': She does things very much her own way.
Sometimes it's used in front of noun groups to emphasize someone or something has all the qualities you would expect a particular kind to have, He was very much a seaman.  --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:03, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

very much alike

"alike" is an adjective so why do we say "very much alike"? General Vicinity (talk) 20:04, 27 December 2021 (UTC)