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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 378. The title of today's lesson is
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don't use "quite' in negative sentences. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.
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If the sentence is negative, you cannot use "quite. " You should use" very. " Very can
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be used both for positive or negative sentences. But "quite" cannot. That's why
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it's confusing for students. Because they'll , they'll look at "quiet "and
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they'll look at "very" and say well they, they pretty much mean the same thing.
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"Quite" means vary in many situations, but the use is not exactly the same. "Quite"
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cannot be used in negative sentences. Okay. So let's take a look at some
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examples here. Of course with the X ,this is wrong. So if somebody said it's not
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quite comfortable to travel on a hard seat while taking a long-distance train
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in China. Yes. So of course with the check this would be correct. It is not very
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comfortable to travel on a hard seat while taking a long-distance train in
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China. Yeah. I remember many, many years ago I actually did that. The hard seat
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was really hard. They had absolutely no cushions at all and it was very tiny and
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two people could really just barely fit on it and it was straight up. It didn't
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recline at all. That was a hard seat and they used to sell that. They used to sell
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soft seats and hard sleepers and soft sleepers. But I did experience using
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a hard seat. So it was not very comfortable. All right. Let's continue
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here. All right. Now of course here this is just to show you that in the positive
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sense you can use both. It is quite comfortable to travel on a soft seat. So
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let's you know, just say this was a soft seat that you were traveling on in China
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or on the train. Or it is very comfortable to travel on a soft seat. You
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know, for long distance trains in China. All right. Again the X. This is wrong. It's
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not quite beautiful to look at. Again , and this even sounds you know ... someone would
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probably understand what you mean, but they know this is wrong. This doesn't sound right.
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It's not very beautiful to look at. So of course if this was a positive sentence,
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both would work. You could say it is quite beautiful to look at or it's very
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beautiful to look at. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. Just be careful. Don't use
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"quite" in negative sentences. Okay thank you for your time and I hope you got it.
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Bye-bye.