Name: 'Fast', 'quick' and 'quickly' - Learners' Questions
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T09:21:29.000Z
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What's the difference between fast, quick and quickly?

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Well, both of them are objectives Both of them mean moving or happening at speed on.

Both of them are synonymous, which means they could be used interchangeably.

In many cases where you can use one, you can use the other, For example, this car is very fast or this car is very quick, or the punch was so fast the boxer didn't see it or the punch was so quick.

The box I didn't see quickly and fast are both adverbs of manner.

They both mean moving or happening at speed, and they can both be used interchangeably.

In many cases, for example, the lightning struck fast or the lightning struck quickly.

Or wow, you read fast or wow, you read quickly.

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Well, quick can mean happening over a short time.

We say things like, Let's have a quick meeting, or can I have a quick word?

We talk about a quick glance or quick thinking.

For example, after only a quick glance, her quick thinking came up with a solution to the problem.

And, of course, if someone is quick, it means that they are intelligent, that they understand things quickly.

As for Fast, Fast can be a noun, which means a period where you don't eat.

Have you ever wondered why breakfast is called breakfast?

It's break fast and, of course, fast in relation to a watch can mean that the watch shows the time ahead of the actual time.

Finally, fast and quick can be used with different Cal occassions and in different fixed phrases.

For example, things coming in quick succession come speedily one after another.

If you cut someone to the quick, you hurt them greatly.

If you play things fast and loose with someone and you treat them without care.

And of course, if you hold fast, then you stay firmly where you are or refuse to change your opinion.

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