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Yes, VERY much.
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Very much so.
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What? Superlatives are fun!
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i think saying sometimes is an understatement.
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Yes, I do. The overuse of superlatives effectively devalues them in writing, as they have less of an effect if you read them repeatedly. In some cases when writers use 'very' too often it has little or no effect on the reader as it loses its emphasis and therefore they may as well be omitted.
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I very much think that very is used very much too much in most writing. I don't very much think it's being used too very much in this very answer. lol This is the last of these cool posters.
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Yes. Newspaper editors whack it out nearly all the time. When I write for publication (well, not on AB - on AB I don't edit much), "very" and "really" are things I edit out.
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When Winston Churchill was a young journalist, he overused the word very. His editor advised him to replace it with damned ( a strong word in those days). So Winston did this, then the editor censored all the damned's and the article was concise and to the point. This is something to keep in mind when writing.
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Lots. But that's one of many....like "sometimes" or "so" or "really" or "lots".
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i hate when people say like like i went out and like it was like we did stuff like so like like lol
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Oh yes. It should be banned to get people to use words that have the meaning of it being stronger without adding very. Very painful = Excruciating pain. But some fool would no doubt write: Very extremely excruciatingly painful.
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Why yes, I think that is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very much the case!
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It's just one of those words that people can't help but overuse.
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Yes, it is over used in the media. Mark Twain said that if one would remove the word very from every book it would make no difference to the story...or contents. I cannot remember his exact words but when I read them, at the time, it drew my attention to the word and now I avoid using it, where possible.
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Its, like, very very irritating.
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Some people haven't got a thesaurus handy!
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i think so
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Sometimes
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5-27-2007 No.
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Very true, but I use it very little. 😄
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Not really.
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