The room is fairly ___.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: small
Completed sentence: The room is fairly small. Fairly, quite, pretty and rather modify degree with differences in register and emphasis. Pretty is informal; rather can signal surprise or an unwelcome degree. Quite can mean completely with some non-gradable adjectives. Do not treat these words as fixed percentages.
The story is quite ___. (completely true)
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: true
Completed sentence: The story is quite true. (completely true) Fairly, quite, pretty and rather modify degree with differences in register and emphasis. Pretty is informal; rather can signal surprise or an unwelcome degree. Quite can mean completely with some non-gradable adjectives. Do not treat these words as fixed percentages.
It was rather ___ than I expected.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: colder
Completed sentence: It was rather colder than I expected. Fairly, quite, pretty and rather modify degree with differences in register and emphasis. Pretty is informal; rather can signal surprise or an unwelcome degree. Quite can mean completely with some non-gradable adjectives. Do not treat these words as fixed percentages.
That's ___ a surprise.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: quite
Completed sentence: That's quite a surprise. Fairly, quite, pretty and rather modify degree with differences in register and emphasis. Pretty is informal; rather can signal surprise or an unwelcome degree. Quite can mean completely with some non-gradable adjectives. Do not treat these words as fixed percentages.
Choose the informal degree expression.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: It's pretty good.
Correct choice: It's pretty good. Fairly, quite, pretty and rather modify degree with differences in register and emphasis. Pretty is informal; rather can signal surprise or an unwelcome degree. Quite can mean completely with some non-gradable adjectives. Do not treat these words as fixed percentages.
