Micro-listening #36

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…One guy in particular wrote me…

This is an example of a difference between American and British English.

In American English, you write somebody (i.e. send them a message of some kind), while in British English you write to somebody. Same meaning, but British English requires the preposition to.

…this experience gets even worse…

When we use even + comparative we are adding a kind of emphasis to the comparison.

If situation B is even better than situation A, then situation A was already good, and the comparison requires a bit of extra emphasis.

e.g. My last job was seriously stressful, but my new one is even worse.

e.g. Somehow, May was even wetter than April this year.