{"id":1874,"date":"2017-02-16T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2017-02-17T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:05:23","slug":"direct-and-indirect-objects-after-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/direct-and-indirect-objects-after-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct and indirect objects after explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To explain<\/strong> is to make something clear by giving a detailed description.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you explain how an aeroplane flies?<\/li>\n<li>Can you explain the meaning of this poem?<\/li>\n<li>How do you explain your erratic behaviour?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Explain can be followed by two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/glossary\/object.htm\">objects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that we use \u2018to\u2019 before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/glossary\/indirect-object.htm\">indirect object<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>explained my problem to her<\/strong>. (NOT I explained her my problem.)<\/li>\n<li>Can you <strong>explain to me<\/strong> how to solve this problem? (NOT Can you explain me how to solve this problem?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Explain yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To explain yourself is to justify your motives or behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explain something away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To explain something away is to make something seem less embarrassing by giving an excuse for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To explain is to make something clear by giving a detailed description. Can you explain how an aeroplane flies? Can you explain the meaning of this poem? How do you explain your erratic behaviour?&#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":[399],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-explain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}