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Collocations for easy - 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.

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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.

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PREPOSITION

for
Writing is not easy for her.

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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

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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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Collocations for easy - adv.

Easy is used with these verbs:
sleep

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