Why is "nearly" considered a non-grading adverb?

[rezaaa]

I learned that a non-grading adverb always describes an absolute state. If that is a rule of such adverbs, how are "almost or nearly" used with non-gradable adjectives?

 

[GoesStation]

Forming questions correctly is much more important than naming parts of speech. Can you write a correct version of your question and put it in a new post in this thread?

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: Why is "nearly" considered a non-grading adverb?

To give you a clue about how to do that, I've corrected your thread title.

 

[rezaaa]

I asked why "nearly" is a non-grading adverb while these types of adverbs are used to describe absolute and extreme situation; it makes sense to me when we use, for example, "utterly" or "completely", but "nearly" don't have the same meaning as them.

 

[emsr2d2]

how "almost or nearly" are used with non-gradable adjectives?

We know what you asked but the question in post #1 is not formulated correctly. I have left the incorrectly worded question above. Please look carefully at the word order of a question, as shown by your title (corrected by Rover) and copy the word order to write your question correctly.

 

[jutfrank]

Please do what the moderators have asked, and then give us an example, in the form of a complete sentence, of almost/nearly used with a non-gradable adjective.

 

[rezaaa]

What should i correct? An example of that would be: almost impossible.

 

[emsr2d2]

What should I correct? An example of that would be: almost impossible.

You have now corrected the error in word order in post #1 - thank you.

You were asked to give an example in a complete sentence.

 

[rezaaa]

there is a table showing some non-gradable adjective used with some non-grading adverb in the link below.
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-gradability.htm

 

[5jj]

there is a table showing some non-gradable adjective used with some non-grading adverb in the link below.
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-gradability.htm

Here's an excerpt from the page you linked to.

Often, non-gradable adjectives are used alone:

• It was freezing outside.
• The dog was dead.
• He is investing in nuclear energy.

However, a non-gradable adjective can be used with "non-grading adverbs" (which usually just give the adjective extra impact), for example:

non-grading adverbs	non-gradable adjectives
absolutely	awful	extreme
utterly	excellent
completely	terrified
totally	dead	absolute
nearly	impossible
virtually	unique
essentially	chemical	classifying
mainly	digital
almost	domestic

Here are some example sentences containing non-grading adverbs with non-gradable adjectives:

• Her exam results were absolutely awful. She will have to take the exam again.
• Is there anything like it in the world? It must be virtually unique.
• It starts an essentially chemical reaction.

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[5jj]

An example of that would be: almost impossible.

But not impossible. What is 'graded' is not the impossibility but the degree of possibility.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

What should I correct? An example of that would be: almost impossible.

He wants you to correct this:

how "almost or nearly" are used with non-gradable adjectives?

It has two mistakes. Do you see them? The first involves overall structure of any sentence. The other is about how questions are formed.