Synonymous Intensifiers Quite, Pretty, Rather, and Fairly in Thai English Learners’ Writing

This corpus-based study aimed to investigate the similarities and differences among four synonymous intensifiers—“quite,” “pretty,” “rather,” and “fairly”—between the Thai Learners English Corpus (TLEC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). A corpus-based approach was used in the s...

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