The key to use "quite" accurately is to say it with correct "stress" and "intonation". Listen to how we stress it in different meanings in our video.

If you want to understand the real meaning of "quite", there are two things you have to pay attention to. What are they? Find it out from our video.

Do you know that in the English language there're gradable and non-gradable adjectives?

Use conditional sentences in conversation.

Use phrasal verbs in conversation.

Use discourse markers in conversation.

Why do we pronounce 'kids' as 'kidz' and 'checked' as 'checkt'?

It's convenient "for" you.

It's unclear "to" me.

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Sometimes we stress the verb: look for a job,

but other times we stress the particle: his career takes off.

Why???

conserve ('s' is pronounced as 's')

reserve ('s' is pronounced as 'z')

We've unveiled the pronunciation pattern here ...

It sounds odd if we use "however" in a casual social situation. But what words could we use then?

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