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adverb...
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:40 pm
by Sang-heui, Kim
Hi,
I always appreciate your answers.
I'd like to know the usage of "fairly / quite / rather / pretty / very".
Best regards.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:09 am
by Alan
As adverbials, the first four are generally interchangeable, all denoting a 'medium-grade' level of modification. 'Quite', however, depending on the adjective that it modifies, can mean 'completely', as in 'quite exhausted', or 'quite finished' (i.e. adjectives which generally do not admit of 'intermediate' levels). 'Very' denotes a higher level of amplification, thus 'very sick' would be sicker than simply 'pretty/fairly/rather sick'.