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