Using “very” to put emphasis on sentence meaning

Question

"Very" is commonly used to put emphasis on adjectives, like :

I think you're very strong.

But I noticed there are sometimes other usages, such as this sentence I came across :

With or without you I just feel the very same way.

Is this type of usage correct in everyday language ?

Answer 1

It is good for common language, and for everyday, I think, too. Some examples of using "very" same way:

• “The very same.”
• ‘The very same,’ I said.
• Men do the very same thing.
• And at that very same moment!
• The very same night?”
• “The very same, sir.”
• Everything is the same, the very same as it was, once upon a time.
• I knew that very same feeling.
• He had been thinking the very same thing.
• I was only this moment thinking the very same thing.”
• “I’ve been thinking the very same thing.”
• “Exactly—the very same.”
• In fact, though, she wasn’t afraid, and for that very same reason.
• On and on they went, and I wondered those very same questions a hundred times over during break.
• Whatever it was, it was surely the very same.
• "Well we were going to ask you that very same question, first off why is > your front door locked?
• I'm asking you the very same question.
• Then he kissed me again the very same way.
• “Hey, I asked the chief that very same thing.