What's up, dudes! Welcome to Series English! My name is Antonia Romaker
and today let's consider the following words and understand how they differ.
Quick, quickly and fast. To tell the truth we'll also talk about
speedy, rapid and rapidly today, but mainly we are going to focus on these three.
Quick, quickly and fast.
Firstly we need to remember that whereas quick is an adjective,
quickly is an adverb.
So quick describes nouns.
She gave him a quick look. A quick what? A quick look.
While quickly describes verbs. We should do it as quickly as possible.
Quickly do it. We should finish the project as quickly as possible
Quickly do what? Quickly finish?
So the verb.
And fast is both. It is an adjective and it is an adverb.
Examples. Wow, it's a really fast car. A fast what? A fast car.
How fast can you run?
Run. How? Fast.
In the first sentence it is an adjective because it describes a noun - a car,
And in the second example it is an adverb because it describes a verb -
run fast, to run.
Now let's concentrate on quick and quickly.
Here we use them to refer to something happening in a short time
or a shorter than expected time.
So we presuppose that there is some limited period of time.
Examples. I just need a quick answer,
so I don't have time for jibba jabba. I just need a quick answer.
We stopped for a quick snack. Once again we were in a hurry.
We needed to eat quickly, in a shorter period of time than usually.
Please look over the papers quickly, we are short of time.
So we are in no liberty to waste our time, and we need to do it quickly.
We are going to meet our deadline soon.
There is an additional shade of meaning, but it's quite shaky.
So it doesn't have a leg to stand on. Well actually it does, but
you cannot rely on it 100%, but it might help.
So usually quick and quickly are connected with living things and life.
It's very broad, but here usually we talk about time management.
As for fast it usually refers to things that happen or go at high speed.
For example a train or somebody running and so on.
Very commonly here we talk about different kinds of cars and machines,
machinery.
I love fast cars.
We are walking too fast, I am out of breath.
So we are not late or something. We are just walking fast.
Not so fast, young man, where's your ticket?
So the person is not trying to meet a deadline. He's just trying to run away
Because he doesn't have a ticket.
Now so here it is a quality usually
of a car, of a machine,
of you. You're able to walk fast and run fast.
And here we deal with the strength and force. I can do it. I can run fast.
My car is really fast.
Now let's consider two more words which can be rather confusing.
Speedy is all about success and goals.
Examples: speedy delivery, speedy recovery, speedy sale,
speedy marriage.
And rapid has a hunger to it.
This sounds really weird.
You need to understand that the difference is really relative.
So it can work in one case and not work in the other.
And you need to remember the collocations.
So that's why I try to give you many examples.
Anyway, rapid has a hunger to it, so it needs something to devour,
to grasp.
Rapidly overtaking, rapid pace, rapid fire,
consuming something, rapid pulse, rapid progress,
rapid advancement.
You are climbing your career ladder.
Rapid steps.
At least remember these collocations, these set expressions.
Now let's get back to quick, quickly and fast, because the difference between them is our main concern today.
Try to figure out which word we are supposed to use in these two sentences.
They can be different of course.
Are you ready to check?
Found some tips online for women on how to take a quick shower.
For women. We take too long.
A quick shower, in a limited period of time.
His blood passed through his blood vessels faster and faster as he ran up the stairs.
It's all about strength and force.
To sum up. I would like to point out that the explanations I gave you
might work not always, but in most cases they will.
And I hope that they will be some kind of a foundation for you to base your reasoning on.
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