MATTER (AS A VERB)

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a good day.

In yesterday's lesson we looked at the NOUN matter and today we look at the VERB to matter.

It means: to be important. It is often used with the 'dummy' pronoun 'it' (it matters), especially in questions and negative statements when you are talking about whether something is important.

Example 1: Making sure that my students learn English matters to me; it's very important to me.

Example 2:
Speaker 1: Does it matter if I don't come to the meeting tomorrow? I have a lot of work to do.
Speaker 2: Yes, it does matter; we're going to talk about next year's budget. Please don't miss it.

I encourage you to create your own sentences with the verb TO MATTER. If you really want to impress us, create a sentence with the verb TO MATTER and the noun MATTER. You can post your sentence on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky) and we will give you feedback about your sentence as soon as we can.

Have a great day!