How to use very in a sentence You use very to give emphasis to a superlative adjective or adverb For example, if you say that something is the very best, you are emphasizing that it is the best. (used to add emphasis to an adjective or adverb) to a great degree or extremely To a great degree extremely used for emphasis before adjectives and adverbs often used in negative statements Used to emphasize the exactness of a description
Attended the very same schools The very reverend jane smith. Some common synonyms of very are equal, equivalent, identical, same, and selfsame While all these words mean not different or not differing from one another, very, like selfsame, may imply identity, or, like same may imply likeness in kind. This is the very house where we stayed (definition of very from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press)
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