• Adverbs of degree
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  • The bus was slightly late - about ten minutes.
    CORRECT! slightly/a bit/a little ('a bit' is more informal than the others)
  • The trip was pretty good, overall.
    CORRECT! pretty/quite/fairly = more than 'a little', less than 'a lot'
  • I was completely tired after such a long journey.
    INCORRECT! 'tired' is a gradable adjective so we can use 'very/really/extremely' to make it stronger
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