{"id":1692,"date":"2016-12-10T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2016-12-10T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T12:34:08","slug":"loan-and-lend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/loan-and-lend\/","title":{"rendered":"Loan and lend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The verbs <strong>lend and loan<\/strong> are interchangeable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lend me 50 dollars. OR Loan me 50 dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use <strong>loan<\/strong> when speaking of money and use <strong>lend<\/strong> when speaking of objects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will you <strong>lend<\/strong> me your camera for a day?<\/li>\n<li>Could you <strong>loan<\/strong> me thousand dollars until Friday?<\/li>\n<li>The bank <strong>loaned<\/strong> him $1000 to start a business.<\/li>\n<li>He refused to <strong>lend<\/strong> me his land mower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, note that the distinction between <strong>lend and loan<\/strong> is a fine one. Actually both words can be used interchangeably and there is nothing wrong with the sentence \u2018<em>He refused to loan me his land mower\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verbs lend and loan are interchangeable. Lend me 50 dollars. OR Loan me 50 dollars. Use loan when speaking of money and use lend when speaking of objects. Will you lend me your&#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":[361],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-loan-and-lend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}