{"id":1872,"date":"2017-02-16T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2017-02-17T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:08:38","slug":"doubt-that-doubt-if-doubt-whether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/doubt-that-doubt-if-doubt-whether\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubt that \/ Doubt if \/ Doubt whether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To doubt<\/strong> is to be skeptical concerning something. We can use a clause after doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Clauses after the verb doubt can be introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammarworksheets\/whether-if-worksheet.htm\">whether, if <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/usage\/that-clauses.htm\">that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>doubt that<\/strong> anyone can be clairvoyant.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt whether<\/strong> anyone can be clairvoyant.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt if<\/strong> anyone can be clairvoyant.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt that<\/strong> she will come this evening.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt whether<\/strong> she will come this evening.<\/li>\n<li>I<strong> doubt if<\/strong> she will come this evening.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt that<\/strong> he will repay the money.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt whether<\/strong> he will repay the money.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>doubt if<\/strong> he will repay the money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conjunction can be dropped in an informal style.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I doubt we will have enough money to buy a car. (= I doubt that we will have enough\u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/negatives.htm\">negative forms<\/a> of doubt, we use \u2018that\u2019. \u2018Whether\u2019 and \u2018if\u2019 are not possible in this case.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>don\u2019t doubt that<\/strong> she will come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To doubt is to be skeptical concerning something. We can use a clause after doubt. Clauses after the verb doubt can be introduced by whether, if or that. I doubt that anyone can be&#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":[398],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-doubt-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}