Degree is
typically expressed by an adverbial group with a general indication of degree …
or with a collocationally more restricted adverb of degree … The
collocationally restricted adverbs collocate with verbs serving as Process …
Less commonly Degree may be expressed by a prepositional phrase, usually with to plus a nominal group with extent, degree as Thing and an
intensifying adjective … as Epithet.
Degree expressions characterise the extent of the actualisation of the
process and they often occur immediately before or immediately after the
Process … [The interrogative is how much?.]