{"id":2033,"date":"2017-03-28T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:24:26","slug":"i-cant-help-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/i-cant-help-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t help doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help + (verb-ing)<\/p>\n<p>If you say that you <strong>can\u2019t help doing something<\/strong>, you mean that you can\u2019t stop yourself from doing it. To refer to the past tense, use <strong>\u2018couldn\u2019t help\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0I can\u2019t help worrying about her.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I can\u2019t help thinking about her.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I can\u2019t help loving you.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I couldn\u2019t help breaking the vase.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I couldn\u2019t help eating those cookies.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0She couldn\u2019t help laughing.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I can\u2019t help working all the time.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I can\u2019t help remembering the things he did to me.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0I can\u2019t help eating so much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help + (verb-ing) If you say that you can\u2019t help doing something, you mean that you can\u2019t stop yourself from doing it. To refer to the past tense, use \u2018couldn\u2019t help\u2019. \u00a0I&#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":[428],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-cant-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}