{"id":2035,"date":"2017-03-28T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:30:15","slug":"would-rather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/would-rather\/","title":{"rendered":"Would rather"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I&#8217;d rather + (verb)<\/h2>\n<p>This structure is used to suggest that you would like to do one thing more than another. In informal speech <strong>I would<\/strong> is pronounced as<strong> I\u2019d.<\/strong>\u00a0You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/usage\/rather-than.htm\">learn more about &#8216;would rather&#8217; here.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Would you like something to drink?\u2019 <strong>\u2018I\u2019d rather have<\/strong> something to eat.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d rather stay here than go home.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d rather write than phone.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d rather do it myself.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d rather exercise than lie in the bed all day.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d rather consult a doctor than live in fear.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d rather read a book than watch a movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d rather + (verb) This structure is used to suggest that you would like to do one thing more than another. In informal speech I would is pronounced as I\u2019d.\u00a0You can learn more about&#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":[429],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-would-rather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","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=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}