{"id":2037,"date":"2017-03-28T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:34:06","slug":"i-am-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/i-am-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"I am busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I am \/ was busy + (verb-ing)<\/h2>\n<p>When you are busy you have much to do. The structure <strong>I was busy<\/strong> is followed by an \u2013ing form. It is used to talk about activities that keep you occupied.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m busy working.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s busy getting ready for work.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s busy cooking dinner.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m busy cleaning the house.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s busy studying for the test.<\/li>\n<li>I was busy cooking when the guests arrived.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of an \u2013ing form, we can use <strong>with + noun<\/strong> after <strong>I\u2019m busy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m busy with my studies.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">I\u2019m busy with work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s busy with her kids.<\/li>\n<li>She is busy with her projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am \/ was busy + (verb-ing) When you are busy you have much to do. The structure I was busy is followed by an \u2013ing form. It is used to talk about activities&#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":[430],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-i-am-busy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","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=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}