Discussion
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.
He is very much anxious about the results.
Answer: A
Correct answer: very
Very modifies adjectives in the positive degree, and anxious is an ordinary adjective, so very anxious is what is wanted. Much modifies past participles used passively and comparatives: much impressed, much better, much more difficult. Very much is correct before a verb - I very much appreciate it - but not before a simple adjective. The related pair worth learning is very against too. Very merely intensifies; too means more than is desirable and implies a consequence: too anxious to sleep. Writing too where only emphasis is meant reverses the sense, and is among the commonest errors of degree. With comparatives very is wrong altogether: it is much better or far better, never very better. And with superlatives very returns: the very best.
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