quite – English Grammar Profiler

A2, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, degree, gradable / amazing, awesome, busy, called, clear, comfortable, cool, full, glad, high, interested, JJ, large, low, lucky, PELIC, pleased, popular, pretty, quite, really, RG, simple, so, SPECIAL, strong, sure, true, useful

Point 32 in the category of ADJECTIVES/modifying: adverbs of degree (‘really’, ‘so’, ‘quite’) with an increasing range of common gradable adjectives. PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE: I was so hungry, so I ate two sandwiches. Korean male level 2 writing class. An iWeb search for: really|so|quite _JJ 1 REALLY GOOD 291861 2 SO GOOD 182087 3 SO EASY 127227 4 SO IMPORTANT 102790 5 SO …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, B1, CLAUSES, comparatives, possessive, PRONOUNS, singular / activity, almost, as, high, JJ, just, large, least, mine, nearly, pretty, probably, quickly, quite, rise, RR, sound, turn out, twice, valid, valuable, XX, yours

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 63 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: possessive pronouns ‘mine’ and ‘yours’, with singular reference, in comparative clauses after ‘(not) as … as’. *The following example does not have a singular reference, and the use of ‘yours’ is A2 in the English Vocabulary Profile. They‘re not as complicated as …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, B2, C1, comparatives, modify, predicate / a, bit, brighter, clearer, heavier, higher, JJR, just, larger, little, lower, might, quite, stronger, wider

point 50 at B1 in the EGP in ADJECTIVES is defined as: ‘A (LITTLE) BIT’ to modify comparative adjectives used predicatively after a verb, usually ‘be’ However, ‘a little bit’ is considered as B2 in the EVP. And this B1 point also clashes completely with the C1 grammar point explained here: A search in iWeb …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, modify, phrases / a, an, fair, high, JJ, large, mixed, NN, pleasant, quite, simple, useful, wide

B1 point 36 in ADJECTIVES/modifying is defined as: adjective phrases ‘quite a’ + adjective For example: The game was quite a simple one. listen An iWeb search for: quite a|an _JJ _NN 1 QUITE A LONG TIME 7672 2 QUITE A LONG WAY 914 3 QUITE A LARGE NUMBER 603 4 QUITE A LARGE AMOUNT 356 5 QUITE A BIG …

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ADVERBS, C1, degree, modify, phrases, range / almost, incredibly, PELIC, quite, reasonably, RR, simply

C1 point 59 in the category of ADVERBS/phrases is defined as: an increasing range of degree adverbs to modify a range of adverb types. *this is unclear in the EGP because we are not sure whether only their examples that are doing the modifying are to be C1. We can look at their examples in …

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In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 57 in the category of ADVERBs is defined as: degree adverbs to modify noun phrases. ‘Quite, rather and almost’ are found in the given example sentences, so we have examined them in the iWeb corpus: 1 QUITE A BIT 60525 ‘quite a bit’ is listed at B1 in …

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ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, C1, degree, hedge, MODALITY, modify / almost, certain, clear, fairly, hardly, impossible, JJ, less, pretty, quite, rather, RG, RR, seems, sure, that, VB

Here’s an example of hedging an assertion: I’m almost certain that it was him. Listen   You seem pretty sure of yourself. Listen C1 point 210 in MODALITY on the English Grammar Profile is based on: MODIFYING an ADJECTIVE for HEDGING with a degree adverb. We are offered only two examples: ‘quite probable’ and ‘almost certain.’  Since this is in the category of …

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