VERBS
- be, feel, look, seem
- The chairs felt hard and uncomfortable
- become, go
- Don't leave the cake uncovered or the icing will go hard
- stay
ADV
- extremely, very
- a bit, fairly, quite, rather
PHRASES
- rock hard
- The toffee was rock hard
VERBS
- be, look, seem
- become, get
- Life got very hard
- make sth
- If you tell the children the answers, it only makes it harder for them to do the work on their own
- find sth
- I found the exam quite hard
ADV
- extremely, really, very
- a bit, fairly, pretty, quite, rather