{"id":97,"date":"2015-07-21T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/styleforstudents\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=97"},"modified":"2015-07-21T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:02:48","slug":"pretty-quite-rather-very","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-styleforstudents-1\/chapter\/pretty-quite-rather-very\/","title":{"raw":"Pretty \/ Quite \/ Rather \/ Very","rendered":"Pretty \/ Quite \/ Rather \/ Very"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"node-1914\" class=\"node\">\r\n<div class=\"content clear-block\">\r\n\r\nIn technical writing, avoid the words \u201cpretty,\u201d \u201cquite,\u201d \u201crather,\u201d and \u201cvery\u201d as adjectives. 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