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Hilda9 Posted 6 years ago
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Does it sound ok to use ‚bad‘ with ‚impact‘ as in „She’s had a bad impact on him.“

And what about ‚solve‘ and ‚issue‘ as in „in order to solve this issue they installed ...“

  

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content=bad+effect%2Cbad+impact%2C+negative+impact&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3 Note that quotation marks in English are like "this" or 'this', not „this“ or ‚this‘. “ To me, "solve this issue" sounds like a rather jargony or loose usage – a sort of usage that careful writers might avoid. The Ngrams graph shows that its frequency has dramatically increased in recent years.

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  • content=bad+effect%2Cbad+impact%2C+negative+impact&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3 Note that quotation marks in English are like "this" or 'this', not „this“ or ‚this‘.
  • “ To me, "solve this issue" sounds like a rather jargony or loose usage – a sort of usage that careful writers might avoid.
  • The Ngrams graph shows that its frequency has dramatically increased in recent years.
  • Even so, "solve this problem" and "resolve this issue" are both more common, the former very much more so.
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Hilda9Does it sound ok to use ‚bad‘ with ‚impact‘ as in „She’s had a bad impact on him.“

"bad effect" and "negative impact" are both much more common than "bad impact":

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