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matured
He isn’t matured enough to get married.
He isn’t mature enough to get married.
Replacing such a politically matured leader will not be easy.
Replacing such a politically mature leader will not be easy.
Use
matured/mature
when you are talking about wine, cheese etc: ‘The whisky is kept here until
it has matured/is mature.’
When you are talking about people, the usual word is
mature
: ‘He’s very mature for a boy of
sixteen.’
may
If I hadn’t seen the car coming, I may have been killed.
If I hadn’t seen the car coming, I might have been killed.
To refer to something in the past that was possible but did not actually happen, use
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