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Guest Posted 22 years ago
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Quality or Qualitative

After compliment,


May I ask which is correct in the following?

1. We provide quality education.
2. We provide qualitative education.


Thanks for your reply.
  

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Both are correct - in your 2nd example, qualitative is the adjective that describes education, while in your 1st example, quality education is a compound substantive; maybe you can hyphen it to make it clearer: We provide Quality-Education.

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  • Both are correct - in your 2nd example, qualitative is the adjective that describes education, while in your 1st example, quality education is a compound substantive; maybe you can hyphen it to make it clearer: We provide Quality-Education.
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Both are correct - in your 2nd example, qualitative is the adjective that describes education, while in your 1st example, quality education is a compound substantive; maybe you can hyphen it to make it clearer: We provide Quality-Education.
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Don't use the word "qualitative" to mean "quality". That isn't what it means. "Qualitative" means measurable or described by non-numerical qualities. The opposite of "qualitative" is "quantitative".

Most educational programs have both qualitative and quantitative components, but this doesn't say anything about how good they are. Subjects like engineering and science lean towards the qu
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>>> Note also that I don't think "quality education" should be capitalized or hyphenated.

I do think you can hyphenate or capitalize it if you want to accentuate it though.
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