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Ipodmini Posted 20 years ago
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quite a / a quite
(1)What's the difference between "It's a quite interesting book. "
and "It's quite an interesting book."
(2)There're quite a few people. (not large in number, but 'many' comparing with the usual number??)
For example: there're 10 people in the shop, you can not say there're many people, but you can say there're quite a few people (maybe it's a small shop)
Is my understanding right, or totally wrong?
and "It's quite an interesting book."
(2)There're quite a few people. (not large in number, but 'many' comparing with the usual number??)
For example: there're 10 people in the shop, you can not say there're many people, but you can say there're quite a few people (maybe it's a small shop)
Is my understanding right, or totally wrong?
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Ipodmini (1)What's the difference between "It's a quite interesting book. Here, 'quite' is a modifier of 'interesting' indicating the same thing that 'very' might indicate. and "It's quite an interesting book.
- Ipodmini (1)What's the difference between "It's a quite interesting book.
- Here, 'quite' is a modifier of 'interesting' indicating the same thing that 'very' might indicate.
- and "It's quite an interesting book.
- Here, 'quite' is used more as an exclamatory comment, similar to 'what' in "What a great idea!
- (note the exclamation point).
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Ipodmini(1)What's the difference between "It's a quite interesting book. Here, 'quite' is a modifier of 'interesting' indicating the same thing that 'very' might indicate.
and "It's quite an interesting book.Here, 'quite' is used more as an exclamatory comment, similar to 'what' in "What a great idea! (
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