{"id":73396,"date":"2020-03-24T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73396"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:15:11","slug":"quite-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/quite-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Quite<\/b>\u00a0suggests a higher\u00a0degree\u00a0than\u00a0<b>fairly<\/b>. It can modify adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The film was<b>\u00a0quite good.\u00a0<\/b>(modifies the adjective good)<\/li>\n<li>I can speak French\u00a0<b>quite well.\u00a0<\/b>(modifies the adverb\u00a0well)<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>quite dislike<\/b>\u00a0him. (modifies the verb dislike)<\/li>\n<li>That was\u00a0<b>quite a celebration.\u00a0<\/b>(modifies the noun celebration)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With non-gradable adjectives\u00a0and adverbs\u00a0<b>quite<\/b>\u00a0means<i>\u00a0completely<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0<b>quite impossible.\u00a0<\/b>(=It is completely impossible.)<\/li>\n<li>I have\u00a0<b>quite finished.\u00a0<\/b>(=I have completely finished.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With gradable adjectives and adverbs,\u00a0<b>quite\u00a0<\/b>means something like\u00a0<b>\u2018fairly\u2019\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>\u2018rather\u2019<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0<b>quite surprising.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Quite<\/b>\u00a0is not used directly before\u00a0comparatives. We use other words like\u00a0<b>rather, much\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>a bit.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>rather taller than<\/b>\u00a0her husband. (NOT She is quite taller than her husband.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This rule,\u00a0however, has an exception.\u00a0<b>Quite\u00a0<\/b>can be used before\u00a0<b>better.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I feel\u00a0<b>quite better<\/b>\u00a0today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>With nouns<\/h3>\n<p>We use\u00a0<b>quite a\/an<\/b>\u00a0before a noun with a gradable adjective or no adjective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The film was<b>\u00a0quite a success.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>quite a crowd puller.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>That was\u00a0<b>quite a celebration.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<b>quite a pleasant surprise.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With non-gradable adjectives,\u00a0<b>quite<\/b>\u00a0comes after<b>\u00a0a\/an.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was\u00a0<b>a quite perfect day.<\/b>\u00a0(NOT It was quite a perfect day.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite\u00a0suggests a higher\u00a0degree\u00a0than\u00a0fairly. It can modify adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns. The film was\u00a0quite good.\u00a0(modifies the adjective good) I can speak French\u00a0quite well.\u00a0(modifies the adverb\u00a0well) I\u00a0quite dislike\u00a0him. (modifies the verb dislike) That was\u00a0quite a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1475,2214,2213],"class_list":["post-73396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-quite","tag-quite-as-an-adverb","tag-using-quite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73397,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396\/revisions\/73397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}