{"id":1658,"date":"2016-11-12T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2016-11-12T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:08:31","slug":"the-fact-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-fact-that\/","title":{"rendered":"The fact that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong>A fact<\/strong> is a reality, actuality, truth, certainty and verity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact<\/strong> is a useful word. However, as far as possible avoid the expression<strong> \u2018the fact that\u2019<\/strong>. It sounds rather sloppy.<\/p>\n<p>Do not say or write <strong>\u2018owing to the fact that\u2019<\/strong> when you can use <strong>\u2018since or because\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Write: <strong>Since<\/strong> she was ill she couldn\u2019t go to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do not write: <strong>Owing to the fact that<\/strong> she was ill she couldn\u2019t go to work.<\/p>\n<p>Do not say or write \u2018in spite of the fact that\u2019 when you can use \u2018though and although\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Write: <strong>Though<\/strong> she had a bad teacher, she passed the test.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do not write: <strong>In spite of the fact that<\/strong> she had a bad teacher, she passed the test.<\/p>\n<p>When you want to state a fact, do so directly without introducing it with \u2018the fact is\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Write: He is a lair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do not write: The fact is, he is a lair.<\/p>\n<p>Also avoid the trite and redundant expression \u2018the true fact\u2019. Facts are always true by their very nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fact is a reality, actuality, truth, certainty and verity. Fact is a useful word. However, as far as possible avoid the expression \u2018the fact that\u2019. It sounds rather sloppy. Do not say or&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-the-fact-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}