easy

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be, look, seem, sound

▪ become, get

▪

Life is getting easier for us.

▪ remain

▪ make sth

▪

These changes should make your job easier.

▪ find sth

▪

I found the exam quite easy.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ awfully, exceptionally

▪ especially, particularly

▪ enough, reasonably

▪

It is easy enough to see how it happened.

▪ comparatively, relatively

▪ amazingly, incredibly, remarkably, ridiculously, surprisingly

▪

The written test was ridiculously easy.

▪ apparently, seemingly (esp. AmE)

▪ not exactly

▪

Doing all that while injured isn't exactly easy.

▪ increasingly

▪ deceptively

▪

It looks deceptively easy to hit the ball into the hole.

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

Writing is not easy for her.

PHRASES

▪ all too easy

▪

It was all too easy to forget why we had been sent there.

▪ as easy as 1, 2, 3, as easy as ABC, as easy as as pie (= very easy)

▪ the easiest thing in the world

▪

It is the easiest thing in the world to blame your parents.

▪ be no easy task

▪

Contacting everyone was no easy task.

▪ make sth as easy as possible

▪

We want to make it as easy as possible for members to participate.

▪ not as easy as it looks, seems, sounds, etc.

▪

Playing tennis is not as easy as it looks.

▪ quick and easy

▪

a book designed for quick and easy reference

Easy is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑access, ↑answer, ↑assembly, ↑availability, ↑banter, ↑catch, ↑charm, ↑choice, ↑climb, ↑confidence, ↑conscience, ↑decision, ↑delivery, ↑descent, ↑dismissal, ↑drive, ↑exam, ↑excuse, ↑exercise, ↑exit, ↑explanation, ↑familiarity, ↑feat, ↑fix, ↑flow, ↑grace, ↑identification, ↑job, ↑journey, ↑kill, ↑labour, ↑life, ↑maintenance, ↑manner, ↑mark, ↑money, ↑movement, ↑navigation, ↑option, ↑parking, ↑part, ↑prey, ↑problem, ↑rapport, ↑read, ↑recipe, ↑reference, ↑remedy, ↑removal, ↑resolution, ↑rhythm, ↑ride, ↑road, ↑route, ↑scapegoat, ↑smile, ↑solution, ↑stride, ↑stroll, ↑subject, ↑sum, ↑target, ↑task, ↑test, ↑thing, ↑transition, ↑victim, ↑victory, ↑virtue, ↑walk, ↑way, ↑win, ↑winner, ↑work

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adv.

Easy is used with these verbs: ↑sleep