Quit, quite, quiet. Quit, quite, quiet. Quit, quite, quiet.
I can't figure out what they mean.
Are they all the same? They aren't.
Are you confused? Let's clear the air.
Hello my dear friends and welcome to English Mania!
My name is Antonia Romaker and today we'll compare quit, quite and quiet.
They sound so similar but they are completely different.
First of all these words are pronounced differently
Quit - short [i], quite - there's a diphthong here [ai] quite and quiet - it's even longer, quiet, this is the third word.
By the way at the end of this lesson I will give you a little pun a little sentence
which will help you remember the meanings of these words.
Let's cut to the chase to quit it is a verb, quit.
Quit means to stop doing something or leave a place or a job.
So you can quit your job you can quit doing something.
Quit laughing at me! I'm not a clown!
I want to quit my English lessons I don't enjoy studying it anymore.
WHAT??
Don't quit studying English. Okay, let's change this sentence.
I want to quit my piano lessons I don't enjoy playing it anymore.
Quit wasting my time, well you? So stop doing it, stop wasting my time.
To quit means to stop doing something or to leave a place or a job, it is a verb.
Notice that we say quit, short [i] vowel sound, quit.
Now quite, quite is an adverb and it usually means not completely. A couple of examples.
I'm quite tired but I can walk a little further. So I'm not completely tired, I'm a little tired.
I'm quite tired more than a little but less than much.
Not completely. I'm quite tired but I can walk a little further.
He's quite attractive, but no Brad Pitt... Will Smith... Zayn Malik?
So he is quite attractive but not a superstar, the most attractive man in the world.
No, he's not. But he is quite attractive.
Quite can also mean very. My sister and I are quite different.
I'm for science and theories and proof.
and she's all about soul and heart and spiritism, intuition and things like that.
So we are quite different, very different, not completely still but quite different.
Notice that we see quite there's [ai] in the middle. Quite.
And finally quiet. Quiet is an adjective, so it's used in connection with nouns,
it describes nouns, objects, things. Quiet means making little or no noise. So, quiet!
Can you be quiet, please? We are in the middle of a lesson here! Stop shouting! Can you be quiet, please?
Quiet can also mean not busy, for example, a street or a town. A quiet town, a quiet street.
Our neighborhood is extremely quiet, no big shopping malls, no broad streets and just very quiet.
A quiet person is a person who talks little, usually it's a shy person.
She is very quiet, she talks little, she doesn't shout, doesn't run around so she's very quiet.
I have two boys, two sons, they are not quiet.
Notice that we say quiet, [aiə] in the middle, quiet.
To sum up, once again quit is a verb, to quit means to stop doing something, quit.
Or to leave a job, to leave a place, to quit, a verb.
Now quite is an adverb and it usually means not completely.
Quite well, you play the piano quite well, not perfectly but quite well, quite, [ai].
And finally quiet is an adjective,
it describes nouns, things, people. Quiet, making a little or no noise. Quiet.
Adjective, a quiet child. Are there quiet children in the world?
And now a little trick for you to understand the difference,
a sentence which will help you remember which word means what.
Quite many children quit being quiet as soon as they wake up.
Quite many children quit being quiet as soon as they wake.
Do you agree? So many children quite many... not all of them but quite many children quit,
so they stopped being quiet, they shout and they run around and they throw things... Phew... Wow!
Quite many children quit being quiet as soon as they wake up.
I hope that this little trick will help you remember the
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