{"id":1784,"date":"2017-01-26T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2017-01-26T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:37:49","slug":"hopeless-penniless-senseless-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hopeless-penniless-senseless-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeless, penniless, senseless etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was struck speechless. (= He could not speak.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speechless means without speech. Likewise, helpless means without help.<\/p>\n<p>Complete the following sentences. Clues are given below.<\/p>\n<p>Without help, without hope, without a penny, without friends, without sense<\/p>\n<p>1. I am \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. of passing the test.<\/p>\n<p>2. A heavy blow struck him \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>3. My purse has been stolen and I am \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>4. David was \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. on that lonely friend.<\/p>\n<p>5. I can\u2019t do anything. I am \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. I am <strong>hopeless<\/strong> of passing the test.<\/p>\n<p>2. A heavy blow struck him <strong>senseless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. My purse has been stolen and I am <strong>penniless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4. David was <strong>friendless<\/strong> on that lonely friend.<\/p>\n<p>5. I can\u2019t do anything. I am <strong>helpless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following sentence. He was struck speechless. (= He could not speak.) Speechless means without speech. Likewise, helpless means without help. Complete the following sentences. Clues are given below. Without help, without hope,&#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":[386],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-helpless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}