Gerund Word Explorer
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Quiet or quite

Quiet

An adjective: making little or no noise.

Please be quiet in the library.

Quite

An adverb: fairly, or completely.

The test was quite easy.

Remember: Say them aloud: qui-et has two beats, quite has just one. If you mean 'little noise', you want the two-beat word.

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Please be ____ in the library.

Short lessonCommonly confused wordsSome words look or sound alike but do different jobs. A small trick keeps them apart.

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