5 exercises — practise extending a claim with the parenthetical "for that matter".
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Which sentence correctly uses "for that matter" to extend a claim about one tool to a closely related one?
"...and the type checker doesn't, for that matter" correctly places the fixed phrase "for that matter" at the end, extending the claim to a related case. Option B reorders the words. Option C scrambles the phrase. Option D wrongly inflects "matter" with "-s".
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Which sentence correctly uses "for that matter" mid-sentence, set off by commas, to broaden a statement about a team's responsibility?
"...or the frontend team, for that matter, reviewed the migration script" correctly inserts the fixed phrase between commas. Options B, C, and D all garble the internal word order or inflection of the fixed phrase.
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "for that matter" (adding a related point of similar weight) from "let alone" (adding a more extreme point after a negative)?
"...can't handle this load, let alone production; the QA environment can't either, for that matter" correctly uses "let alone" to escalate to a more extreme, unlikely case, and separately uses "for that matter" to add a similarly weighted related point. Options B, C, and D all misplace or merge the two distinct connectors.
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Which sentence correctly uses "for that matter" to broaden a claim from one metric to a closely related class of metrics?
"...nor has error rate, for that matter" correctly keeps the standard word order "for that matter". Options B, C, and D all scramble the three words of the fixed phrase into an ungrammatical order.
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Which sentence correctly uses "for that matter" at the start of a follow-up sentence, referring back to a point just made?
"For that matter, it doesn't support filtering either" correctly opens the new sentence with the standard fixed order "for that matter", followed by a comma. Options B, C, and D all reorder the three words incorrectly.