{"id":1742,"date":"2017-01-16T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:45:17","slug":"compare-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/compare-and-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare and contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong>Compare and contrast<\/strong> have different meanings. Do not use compare as a synonym of contrast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We compare things of the same kind or class. For example, we can compare an orange with another orange, but we cannot compare an orange with an apple.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Compare<\/strong> the size of these two mangoes.<\/li>\n<li>How does your new car<strong> compare<\/strong> with your old one?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We contrast things of different classes or kinds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does living in a house <strong>contrast<\/strong> with living in an apartment?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contrast<\/strong> the size of the mango and the pumpkin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast have different meanings. Do not use compare as a synonym of contrast. We compare things of the same kind or class. For example, we can compare an orange with another orange,&#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":[372],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-compare-and-contrast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}