This entry was created in response to a student writing:
students are easy to make a mistake
The reusable link is https://ske.li/likelyto and it looks like this:
nb quite a few of the instances here involve comparative structures
Alternatively, an ‘introductory it’ phrase could be used. Here is a link to some examples – https://ske.li/it_is_easy_to – which looks a bit like this:
It is also possible to show students the types of adjectives that occur in this pattern, as illustrated in this link https://ske.li/it_is_adj_to, which looks like this:
