matters – English Grammar Profiler

B2, comparatives, infinitive / affordable, difficult, efficient, fairer, happier, healthier, higher, JJ, JJR, make, matters, more, NN, simpler, system, to, VVI, worse

In the English Vocabulary Profile at B2: to make matters worse = to make a situation more difficult, unpleasant, etc. If the most common example of to-infinitive + noun + comparative is listed at B2, then it would make sense that other less common should also be considered as B2.  The closest form which is clearly …

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A2, CLAUSES, non-finite, purpose, subordinate / ABLE, add, another, around, clear, even, fair, few, find out, goal, idea, if, keep, learn, matters, most, PELIC, return, sign, so, sure, to, top, VVI, worse

English Grammar Profile A2 point 32 in the category of CLAUSES is defined as: non-finite subordinate clause with ‘to’, to introduce purpose For example: I paid you a lot of money to do this job. listen *This grammar is very hard to locate in corpora if it isn’t at the front of the sentence.  It is also overlapped by other grammar points. For …

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B1, emphasis, NOUNS, phrases / a, additional, amount, amounts, care, condition, confidential, data, deal, demand, difference, duties, expectations, experience, fan, fond, forward, high, hopes, huge, idea, ideas, information, JJ, large, lengths, level, levels, low, matters, memories, news, NN, notice, period, personal, post, price, prices, product, property, proximity, quality, range, real, regard, results, scale, service, shape, simple, space, SPECIAL, standards, statements, such, tough, value, variety, way, wide, wonderful

Point 41 in the category of  NOUNS is defined as: noun phrases with ‘such a’ + adjective + singular noun and ‘such’ + adjective + plural noun, to give emphasis.   An iWeb search for: such a _JJ _NN 1 SUCH A LONG TIME 7187 2 SUCH A BIG DEAL 6247 3 SUCH A SHORT …

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ADJECTIVES, B1, complements, object, position / easy, happy, JJR, make, matters, me, P, sad, sick, them, to, us, worse, you

In the English Grammar Profile, point 52 at B1 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: adjectives as object complement after ‘make’. *However, this clashes with B2: where ‘it’ introduces a reference. *Note, if you capitalise your search term such as MAKE on iWeb, it will give you all forms of the word. A search in iWeb …

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