Grammar 21A: Quite, Quiet, Quit
1. I really hate hanging around with my neighbor; she is ________ annoying.
2. I wish you would ________ fooling around and come help me fix the TV!
3. The shyest boy in the school went on a shooting rampage, and some idiot on TV said,
“It’s the ________ ones you’ve got to watch.”
4. I ________ wish you would marry me, Penelope…I’m even willing to keep the news
of our engagement ________ so your parents and friends don’t find out.
5. If you ________ now, you’ll always ________ everything you try. So, keep
________, try harder, and don’t be ________ so weak.
6. I’ve had ________ enough of your tomfoolery. If you don’t ________ that juvenile
behavior, I’ll find plenty of work to keep you ________.
7. I told him I wasn’t going to keep ________ about the embezzlement anymore, then I
________ and walked out.
8. The world of cells is ________ small, but not ________ as small as the world of sub
atomic particles.
9. Chester ________ the competition, packed up his equipment, and went home.
10. They ________ the prom early, went back to Abdullah’s house, and stayed up late
watching movies, until his dad came to ________ them down, saying he had had
________ enough of their noise for one night.