quite a bit/quite of it

[Magg]

Yesterday, listening to a radio programme online about English grammar, the teacher used an expression but I´m not sure if it was "quite a bit/quite of it expensive" ("bastante" in Spanish, in case it helps), and he said it was wrong to say "quite expensive".

I got surprised.

What do you think of it?
Is the sencond example bad grammar?

Cheers
Magg

 

[whatonearth]

"quite expensive" is fine, I don't see a problem with it.

"Quite a bit expensive" and "Quite of it expensive" are both incorrect and bad English (especially the second one).

Hope that helps!

 

[dbelle4500]

I would agree that "quite expensive" is fine.

Personally I would also say "pretty expensive", but I suspect is less correct.

 

[Gordonedi]

If the price of an item in a shop was more than I expected to pay, I might say that it was "quite expensive" or "a bit expensive".
Perhaps what you heard on the radio was "quite a bit expensive" which is a combination of the two that doesn't mean any more than either.

 

[timpeac]

I think you must have heard "quite a bit" - I've never heard "quite of it" before anyway.

 

[elroy]

"quite expensive" is fine, I don't see a problem with it.

"Quite a bit expensive" and "Quite of it expensive" are both incorrect and bad English (especially the second one).

Hope that helps!

"Quite a bit expensive" may be redundant but it's not incorrect.

Think:
-How expensive was it?
-Oh, quite a bit. (Or "oh, quite.")

"Quite of it expensive" is in fact incorrect in this context.