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"quite a..." or "a quite..." #1 (permalink) Sat May 03, 2008 13:55 pm   "quite a..." or "a quite..."
 

You've been having QUITE A long chat with the doctor.
This is A QUITE comfortable house.

These two sentences are both right.Is there any difference between "quite a.." and "a quite..."?
Here is an exercise:
--English is ________ difficult subject. I even want to drop it.
--You'd better not. I'll help you ______ it.
  A. quite a, with  B. a quite, with 
C. a very, for   D. very a, with

Is B also right?
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"quite a..." or "a quite..." #2 (permalink) Sat May 03, 2008 16:14 pm   "quite a..." or "a quite..."
 

Yes, you can say:
English is a quite difficult subject, meaning that it's very difficult.
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"quite a..." or "a quite..." #3 (permalink) Sat May 03, 2008 19:36 pm   "quite a..." or "a quite..."
 

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You can also say "English is quite a difficult subject".
I'd also say that word order (quite a) would be the more commonly used one.
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"quite a..." or "a quite..." #4 (permalink) Mon May 12, 2008 14:17 pm   "quite a..." or "a quite..."
 

English is ________ difficult subject. I even want to drop it.

i think the option "quite a" is correct.
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"quite a..." or "a quite..." #5 (permalink) Mon May 12, 2008 15:14 pm   "quite a..." or "a quite..."
 

Yankee wrote:
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You can also say "English is quite a difficult subject".
I'd also say that word order (quite a) would be the more commonly used one.
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And the BYU Corpus of American English would agree with you:

quite a + adj - 1213 per 1 million words
a quite + adj - 356 per 1 million words

It may be of interest to note that the former appears quite a lot in the Spoken register and the latter more in the Academic register.
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