{"id":377,"date":"2008-10-20T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2008-10-27T11:01:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T01:01:36","slug":"be-quite-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/be-quite-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Be quite quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the most common spelling errors keep an eye out for this pair of words&#8230; especially as a spell check won&#8217;t pick the difference if you make a typing error.<\/p>\n<p>quite: actually, truly; to an extent<br \/>\n<em>The house was quite large<\/em><\/p>\n<p>quiet: not making a lot, or any, noise<br \/>\n<em>The children were unusually quiet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So how can you remember which is which, other than just repeating it until you get it? I was once told to keep my ears (the letter e) inside (rather than being the last letter) when I need peace and quiet \ud83d\ude42 Maybe that tip will help you remember the difference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And just to be complete, the word quit (as it\u00a0is sometimes used instead of quite or quiet, too) means to stop or end something &#8211; for example,\u00a0<em>the man quit arguing with his boss<\/em>. It\u00a0is easy to remember &#8211; just quit writing before you add an e!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the most common spelling errors keep an eye out for this pair of words&#8230; especially as a spell check won&#8217;t pick the difference if you make a typing error. quite: actually, truly; to an extent The house was quite large quiet: not making a lot, or any, noise The children were unusually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[273,459,824,460,648],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-meanings","tag-quiet","tag-quit","tag-quite","tag-remember"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}