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Chariot Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

fast, quick

What is the difference? Thank you.
  

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Hi, These words have various types of meaning, so you need to look in your dictionary. However, here are a couple of grammatical comments. fast can be used as an adjective, eg a fast runner , and as an adverb eg he runs fast.

  • Hi, These words have various types of meaning, so you need to look in your dictionary.
  • However, here are a couple of grammatical comments.
  • fast can be used as an adjective, eg a fast runner , and as an adverb eg he runs fast.
  • quick is an adjective, eg he made a quick decision.
  • The adverb form is 'quickly', but in casual speech we often say 'quick', eg I need help, come quick!
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Hi,

These words have various types of meaning, so you need to look in your dictionary. However, here are a couple of grammatical comments.

fast can be used as an adjective, eg a fast runner, and as an adverb eg he runs fast.

quick is an adjective, eg he made a quick decision. The adverb form
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In very broad terms, fast is used more often for people and things; quick refers more often to promptness of reaction or to what takes little time to do. fast has more sense of speed in a general way; quick has more sense of liveliness and animation. They are often interchangeable, but frequently only one of the two sounds natural to a native speaker even when the o

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