Expression: " Students are permitted..."

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi

At the top of one English paper the following line was written:

" Students are permitted to use dictionary."

I suppose it should be a dictionary since it is no newspaper heading.

What do you think???

Tom

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Quite. It should read either: “Students are permitted to use a dictionary” or “(…) permitted to use dictionaries”.

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Thanks, Conchita!

Could you please explain the use of the following?

and

Thanks again

Tom

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‘Quite’ can be said to show that you agree, like ‘exactly’ or ‘that’s right’.

(…): suspension points indicate that the sentence or text is incomplete.

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Thanks again, Conchita!

Last question about theis thread.

So could we use quite in this sense in spoken English?

A- “I think we should not go out tonight?”
B- “Quite!”

It it correct?

About my sceond question in the abaove colums, why did you write the incomplete sentence. In other words, why did you drop students and write “…”.Any particular reason?

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Somehow, ‘quite’ sounds a bit awkward after a suggestion, especially if it’s a question. You wouldn’t say ‘exactly’ in this case either, I think. I would only use it in place of terms like ‘you’re quite right’, ‘absolutely’, ‘exactly’ or ‘that’s right’.

Try to guess first :slight_smile: . Why do people do that: write three little dots instead of repeating words or having to write a whole text that is not important?