Emotions & feelings
go easy on someone
avoid being too harsh
To go easy on someone means to treat them less severely or demand less from them.
Hear it in real life
I made three mistakes in the presentation.
Go easy on yourself. Nobody noticed most of them.
Go easy on yourself; you have only just started the job.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Please go easily on me.
Say: Please go easy on me.
Use the adjective 'easy', not the adverb 'easily', in this phrase.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
go easy on someone; went easy on me; go easy on yourself
Your turn: say it out loud
Go easy on yourself; you have only just started the job.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
go easy on someone
avoid being too harsh
“Go easy on yourself; you have only just started the job.”
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