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Lingua Franca 2013-03-15

Summary:

The maligned adverb "quite" seems to have two opposite meanings, some people say. Not true, Geoff Pullum explains.

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/03/13/quite/

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Tags:

grammar words style

Authors:

Geoffrey Pullum

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 12:21

Date published:

03/13/2013, 00:01