> From: Lois Fegan <muz58@hotmail.com> > Is the sentence, "James had a pretty good reason for asking," > grammaticallyu correct or not. The emphasis being on the word pretty. Yes, this sentence is grammatically correct. _Pretty_ is used here to mean 'quite' - no problem with this at all. Karen Steffen Chung National Taiwan University karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw