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 #2 (permalink) Sun Dec 19, 2004 16:45 pm Wholly vs. quite |
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If you think that somebody has made the right decision you should support them wholly or totally.
Quite means rather or to a certain extent which doesn't fit here.
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Mar 13, 2009 14:14 pm Wholly vs. quite |
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hi!
i have used fairly . Can you tell me why wholly not fairly |
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Mar 13, 2009 18:02 pm Wholly vs. quite |
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Hi Khumri64
You can use "fairly supportive", for example, to indicate that the degree of the adjective "supportive" is more than average, but less than very.
If the verb "support" is used with the adverb "fairly", the word order would usually be "support fairly", and the word "fairly" would normally mean "in a fair or reasonable manner".
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| Quite means rather or to a certain extent which doesn't fit here. |
The word "quite" is also commonly used to mean "completely" or "to the greatest extent". It is very often used with this meaning in negative constructions (e.g. not quite finished), but it's not really possible to completely rule out this meaning in an affirmative construction:
- I quite agree.
- I don't quite agree.
- Quite the opposite is true.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quite
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| #5 (permalink) Sat Mar 14, 2009 14:26 pm Wholly vs. quite |
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| thank u for responding me |
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