Word Family Worksheets

✔ Put together - used for saying that someone or something is better or bigger than the whole of a group of other people or things.

- He knows more about computers than the rest of them put together.

✔ You ought to see/hear/meet etc - used for emphasizing how good, impressive, or unusual something or someone is.

- You ought to see their new house – it’s enormous!

✔ There’s nothing/no place like something - used for emphasizing that a thing or a place is better than any other.

- I tell you, after a long, hard day of work, there's nothing like throwing your feet up onto the couch and sipping a hot mug of tea.

✔ To a fault - used for emphasizing that someone or something has a particular good quality to a very great degree. 

- He’s a very kind-hearted man, and generous to a fault. (= very generous)

✔ Beyond/without compare - used for emphasizing the very good qualities of a person or thing. 

- Her beauty is beyond compare.

✔ Do justice to someone/something - used to show or emphasize all the good qualities of someone or something.

- This is the only picture I have that does full justice to her beauty (= shows her to be as beautiful as she is).

✔ What’s not to like? - used to say that you think something is very good, and that nobody could disagree with your opinion.

- It's a big house with a swimming pool. What's not to like?