Hello! I'm an English learner. Could you please help me with the following question?
1. Mary's best performance came one evening when she said
the horse's front foot was injured. Her father said that
the horse was extremely fine.
2. Mary's best performance came one evening when she said
the horse's front foot was injured. Her father said that
the horse was perfectly fine.
Which adverb should I use in this case, "extremely" or
"perfectly"?
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"Perfectly fine" implies the horse is fine, as without injury.
To use "extremely fine" implies that the horse is a particularly good specimen, athletic, a good performer, good breeding stock, desirable physical attributes and conformation, etc. It doesn't speak at all to whether the horse is injured or fit to run, work, walk, etc. To emphasize the point, you can say "Unfortunately we had to put this extremely fine horse down because it could not recover from its injury."
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"perfectly"
"extremely fine" means "very high quality" or sometimes "very beautiful"
"perfectly fine" means "good enough" -- whatever imperfections it has are not a problem
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"perfectly" is the correct word.
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"perfectly fine"- the horse is fine, without injury. kinda emphatic.
"extremely fine"- the horse is VERY fine. makes no mention of injury, just talking about the horse itself.
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