{"id":1860,"date":"2017-02-15T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T09:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T09:01:27","slug":"she-poked-me-in-the-eye-sample-english-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/she-poked-me-in-the-eye-sample-english-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"She poked me in the eye | Sample English conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Storyline: Kavita was playing with her daughter when the child\u00a0accidentally poked her in the eye.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitra: What happened to your eye?<\/p>\n<p>Kavita: Nothing really. My daughter poked me in the eye. Actually I was playing with her when her fingernails scrapped my eye.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra: That\u2019s no good.<\/p>\n<p>Kavita: At first it wasn\u2019t too bad so I just ignored it, but the next morning it really hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra: Didn\u2019t you see a doctor?<\/p>\n<p>Kavita: Yeah, I did.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra: What did he say?<\/p>\n<p>Kavita: He said that it should be okay but it might take a while. Until then I\u2019ll have to live with a blurry eye.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra: I\u2019m so sorry to hear that.<\/p>\n<p>Kavita: Yeah. I never thought that a harmless poke in the eye would cause so much damage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The auxiliary verb <strong>should<\/strong> can be used to show probability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She should be here soon. (= It is probable that she will be here soon.)<\/li>\n<li>The report should be ready by evening. (= It is probable that the report will be ready by evening.)<\/li>\n<li>You should get better after taking this medicine. (= It is probable that you will get better after taking this medicine.)<\/li>\n<li>Should can also be used to talk about duty. In most cases you will be able to infer the meaning using context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storyline: Kavita was playing with her daughter when the child\u00a0accidentally poked her in the eye. Mitra: What happened to your eye? Kavita: Nothing really. My daughter poked me in the eye. Actually I was&#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":[4],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-sample-english-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","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=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}