{"id":2008,"date":"2017-03-20T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:28:44","slug":"command-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/command-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Command | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To command is to <strong>order, instruct, direct or require.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The king commanded his guards to execute anyone who dared to enter his chamber.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note the word pattern:<strong> command + noun\/pronoun + to-infinitive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The father commanded the children to stay quiet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The principal <strong>commanded the boys to leave the class.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Command can also mean <em>lead, direct, manage, guide, govern or supervise<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General Patton commanded the 7th Army in World War II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To command love or admiration is to earn it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The singer commanded the admiration of music lovers all over the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Command (noun)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Command<\/strong> can also be a noun.<\/p>\n<p>As a noun, command means \u2018order, instruction, bid or call\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Who issued the command to fire?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dictator assumed <strong>command<\/strong> of the country. (= The dictator took control of the country.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To have a good command of a language<\/strong> is to be proficient in it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She has a good command of German.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To command is to order, instruct, direct or require. The king commanded his guards to execute anyone who dared to enter his chamber. Note the word pattern: command + noun\/pronoun + to-infinitive The father&#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":[422],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}