{"id":1780,"date":"2017-01-26T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2017-01-26T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:32:19","slug":"hang-hung-and-hanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hang-hung-and-hanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang, hung and hanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <strong>hang<\/strong> has two basic meanings.<\/p>\n<p>We can <strong>hang a picture or another object<\/strong>. It is also possible to<strong> hang a man.\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The past tenses are different for the two meanings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pictures or <em>drapes are hung, but a man is hanged to death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you<strong> hung the curtains<\/strong> yet? (NOT Have you hanged the\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>The murderer <strong>was hanged<\/strong> at dawn. (NOT The murderer was hung at dawn.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hanger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hanger is an object used for hanging.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hang your coat on this hanger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hangar is an aeroplane shed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plane was wheeled into the <strong>hangar<\/strong> for repairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word hang has two basic meanings. We can hang a picture or another object. It is also possible to hang a man.\u00a0The past tenses are different for the two meanings. Pictures or drapes&#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":[384],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-hung-or-hanged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}