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Old 04-Jan-2008, 15:35
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Default Re: Quite\Rather 2
Rather can be used with:
1. Negative adjectives: The soup is rather cold.
2. Positive adjectives to express surprise. Here rather changes its meaning to very: it was rather clean: more than clean and more than I expected.
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