What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job. (She has quitted her job.) She quit her job. (She has quit her...

2021年7月6日 · I just searched for "an ass that wouldn't quit" in Google Books. Every single one of the 10 matches on the first page of results was a sexualised reference to a female with a shapely posterior. I also tried searching for "a mule that wouldn't quit" (mules being stereotypically stubborn) to see if I might find any more "literal" instances, but that returned no matches at all.

2017年4月12日 · Quit is more decisive way of stating action ,where as give up is more a reference to desires. So the teacher was saying that you would quit not think of giving up.

2018年5月16日 · In a new policy from my company (non-native English, but English is the corporate language), they use the word "defector" to refer to a person who has tendered their resignation. I think ...

2010年10月15日 · Quite a few expresses that the speaker was impressed or astonished by the number, as they would have expected less. Or the speaker wants to emphasize on the fact that it was "more than you would think". Yet I do not think that there is an order involved that quite a few would be less than many. The intended effect is different. One could call it understatement.

2013年12月3日 · The song from the musical really sums it all up: someone who refuses to quit despite all hardship, someone who like the Eveready Energizer rabbit just keeps going and going and going and going. The Impossible Dream (The Quest) To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare ...

2018年8月31日 · 'Quit while you're ahead, you cheap skates!'" Within fifty years, however, people had begun occasionally using a variation on this expression that comes much closer to the sense that the posted question requires: quit while [one is] behind, meaning to stop making things worse by continuing to pursue a losing or failing course of action.

To resign is to "quit." To step down is to "climb down" from a high position. It is possible to "step down all the way," as Ray Ozzie did at Microsoft. In this regard, the two are synonymous. On the other hand, Bill Gates initially "stepped down" from CEO to Chief Software Officer, thereby taking a lesser post, without actually quitting or ...

When I was a kid, I was always taught to refer to years using BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini / year of our Lord). However, I somewhat regularly hear people referring to years as in the CE (

2015年10月26日 · Since the latter assertion usually didn't need confirmation or reinforcement the use of 'quit' or 'quite' wasn't called for, but if one was addressing a doubting audience one would say, 'Yes, quit fifty acres!', meaning 'Yes, and I've checked!'.