Using awfully

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let's look

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at number three awfully

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now this one is interesting because

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awfully you may know the adjective awful

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so awfully means badly or very badly so

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you could say

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he plays the guitar awfully he plays the

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guitar awfully

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he plays it very badly but the

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interesting thing about awfully is that

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if you use it with a positive adjective

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it means the opposite it means very good

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so you could say he's awfully good at

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playing the guitar

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so that's really emphasizing he's very

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good he's excellent

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he's wonderful so that's what we call an

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oxymoron it's kind of contradicting it's

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two words that go together it's a

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collocation

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that's kind of they contradict each

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other

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but in this case it's to add emphasis

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so when you say something is awfully

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good it's extremely good

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and the next adverb is reluctantly

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now reluctantly means unwillingly but

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maybe you don't really understand what

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unwillingly is so

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when you do something reluctantly it

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means you do it

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even though you don't really want to do

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it so you do it in the end you don't

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you don't really