states (that)

This link was created in response to a student writing

Moeller (1998) states‘Today education is immersed in technological revolution’

The reusable link is https://ske.li/asxstates and it looks like this:

students are easy to do this

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: