almost | quite | incredibly | reasonably + ADVERB – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, C1 point 59 in the category of ADVERBS/phrases is defined as:

an increasing range of degree adverbs to modify a range of adverb types.

*this is unclear in the EGP because we are not sure whether only their examples that are doing the modifying are to be C1.

We can look at their examples in iWeb:

almost|quite|incredibly|reasonably _RR

1 QUITE A 128584

2 ALMOST ALWAYS

124188

PELIC STUDENT examples:

Every day after finishing school, she almost always practiced dancing with loud music.

Korean Female level 5 writing

Companies almost always determine their actions in order to profit targets, because they always try to get more customers.

Russian Female level 5 writing

3 ALMOST CERTAINLY 67338 4 QUITE WELL 58405 5 QUITE OFTEN 43006 6 ALMOST IMMEDIATELY 39788 7 ALMOST ENTIRELY 36699 8 ALMOST NEVER 33202 9 ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY 27701

10 ALMOST COMPLETELY 24554

11 QUITE SIMPLY

23341

He wanted to create, quite simply, the biggest mixed martial arts spectacle in history.

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12 QUITE FRANKLY 22006 (this grammar is often called ‘comment adverbials’)

This let us build a model of my face that, quite frankly, is just amazing.

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13 QUITE POSSIBLY 20916
14 QUITE LITERALLY 19742

15 ALMOST EXACTLY

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The graph indicates that they were almost exactly the same in 2004.

Korean Female B1

16 QUITE EASILY 17754 17 ALMOST INSTANTLY 12506 18 QUITE RIGHT 12436 19 QUITE QUICKLY 11661 20 REASONABLY WELL 11087 21 QUITE NICELY 9869 22 ALMOST TWICE 9854 23 INCREDIBLY WELL 9837 24 QUITE ENOUGH 8092 25 QUITE CLEARLY 7973 26 QUITE YET 7796 27 QUITE HONESTLY 6482 28 ALMOST UNIVERSALLY 6214 29 QUITE FREQUENTLY 6170 30 QUITE AWHILE 5703 31 ALMOST DAILY 5479 32 QUITE RIGHTLY 4629 33 ALMOST INVARIABLY 4493 34 ALMOST TOTALLY 4458 35 QUITE FAR 4264 36 ALMOST PERFECTLY 4098 37 QUITE DIFFERENTLY 3764 38 QUITE FAST 3528 39 QUITE RECENTLY 3522 40 QUITE OBVIOUSLY 3340 41 QUITE HAPPILY 3179 42 QUITE HARD 2917 43 ALMOST CONSTANTLY 2904 44 QUITE CLOSE 2887 45 QUITE SO 2855 46 QUITE EARLY 2836 47 ALMOST HALF 2818 48 ALMOST DEFINITELY 2793 49 QUITE LONG 2756 50 ALMOST FULLY 2659 51 QUITE NATURALLY 2560 52 ALMOST DIRECTLY 2447 53 QUITE HOW 2330 54 INCREDIBLY FAST 2319 55 ALMOST ALL 2309 56 ALMOST SURELY 2288 57 QUITE REGULARLY 2241 58 ALMOST EQUALLY 2213 59 QUITE RAPIDLY 2211 60 ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY 2194 61 QUITE SOON 2100 62 ALMOST LITERALLY 2054 63 QUITE AS 2032 64 ALMOST INEVITABLY 1995 65 QUITE HEAVILY 1900 66 QUITE BADLY 1895 67 ALMOST RIGHT 1874 68 ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY 1839 69 ALMOST STRAIGHT 1832 70 ALMOST SOLELY 1786 71 QUITE LIKELY 1771 72 ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY 1702 73 QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY 1679 74 INCREDIBLY HARD 1660 75 ALMOST WHOLLY 1654 76 QUITE EFFECTIVELY 1649 77 QUITE SERIOUSLY 1648 78 ALMOST JUST 1531 79 QUITE DRAMATICALLY 1531 80 QUITE LATE 1510 81 QUITE CLOSELY 1372 82 QUITE COMFORTABLY 1372 83 QUITE STRONGLY 1371 84 QUITE SUCCESSFULLY 1343 85 QUITE LOUD 1337 86 ALMOST ENOUGH 1331 87 QUITE SUDDENLY 1260 88 ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY 1258 89 QUITE REASONABLY 1257 90 QUITE DEEP 1219 91 ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY 1205 92 QUITE PROBABLY 1204 93 QUITE LIKE 1173 94 ALMOST AT 1141 95 INCREDIBLY QUICKLY 1127 96 ALMOST ASSUREDLY 1122 97 QUITE EXTENSIVELY 1078 98 ALMOST AUTOMATICALLY 1052 99 QUITE TIGHT 1036

100 QUITE SLOWLY 1021