Real English ESL - Lesson 42 - Exercise 6 - Pretty Good and Too Good!

Vocabulary:
1 - pretty as an adjective: beautiful, attractive. Pretty modifies the nouns "woman" and "bird" in this picture:

2 - pretty as an adverb: To a fair degree; moderately. Example from the dictionary: a pretty good student!

For example: a "C Student" is average or pretty good.
"Good" is an adjective, but "pretty" becomes an adverb now because it modifies another adjective.

Click on ALL the correct statements:
1. Pretty woman: pretty is an adjective because it modifies the noun "woman".
2. Pretty good: pretty is an adverb because it modifies the adjective "good".
3. Pretty good means average. Not very good; not very bad.
4. Students usually go to school. Usually is an adverb because it modifies the verb "go".
Regina says "I was definitely and overachiever at school". What is an overachiever?

Is this a new word for you? Guess (only 1 answer is correct):
1. A person who achieves more success than expected.
2. Just average.
3. It's the same as an underachiever.