{"id":1684,"date":"2016-12-07T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:37:28","slug":"the-matter-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-matter-with\/","title":{"rendered":"The matter with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expression <strong>\u2018the matter\u2019<\/strong> or <strong>\u2018the matter with\u2019<\/strong> can be used after words like <em>something, anything, nothing and what.<\/em> It means something like \u2018wrong with\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Something is <strong>the matter with<\/strong> Maria. She doesn\u2019t talk to anyone. (= Something is wrong with Maria.)<\/li>\n<li>Is<strong> anything the matter?<\/strong> (= Is anything wrong?)<\/li>\n<li>Something is<strong> the matter with<\/strong> my car. It doesn\u2019t start.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s <strong>the matter with<\/strong> you today? (= What is wrong with you today?)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nothing is the matter with<\/strong> your legs. You are just too lazy to go jogging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We sometimes use \u2018<strong>there<\/strong>\u2019 as a preparatory subject for something, anything and nothing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is something <strong>the matter with<\/strong> my car. (= There is something wrong with my car.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression \u2018the matter\u2019 or \u2018the matter with\u2019 can be used after words like something, anything, nothing and what. It means something like \u2018wrong with\u2019. Something is the matter with Maria. She doesn\u2019t talk&#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":[251],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-the-matter-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}