VERBS
- be, ring, seem, sound
- Her explanation doesn't ring quite true
- come
- All her wishes came true. It was like a dream come true
- remain
ADV
- particularly, very
- This is particularly true of older women. |
- absolutely, perfectly, quite
- It's perfectly true that I didn't help much, but I was busy
- certainly
- While this is certainly true for some, it's not true for others
- by no means, far from, not at all
- This degree of inequality was by no means true of all Victorian marriages. ' That's not true at all , ' he said firmly
- hardly, not completely, not entirely, not quite, not strictly, scarcely
- It's hardly true to call cleaning windows a 'profession' . That's not strictly true, I'm afraid
- almost, more or less, pretty well
- The story is more or less true. |
- objectively
PREP
- to
- She stayed true to her principles