diff --git a/quickumls/core.py b/quickumls/core.py
index 7164d18..1fa3673 100644
--- a/quickumls/core.py
+++ b/quickumls/core.py
@@ -445,11 +445,11 @@ def match(self, text, best_match=True, ignore_syntax=False):
         parsed = self.nlp(u'{}'.format(text))
         
         # pass in parsed spacy doc to get concept matches
-        matches = self._match(parsed)
+        matches = self._match(parsed, best_match, ignore_syntax)
 
         return matches
         
-    def _match(self, doc, best_match=True, ignore_syntax=False):
+    def _match(self, doc, best_match, ignore_syntax):
         """Gathers ngram matches given a spaCy document object.
 
         [extended_summary]