{"id":229,"date":"2014-07-07T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:11:35","slug":"trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word<strong> trouble<\/strong> is mainly used as an uncountable noun. That means it does not have a plural form. Also it is not normally used with numbers or the article a\/an.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Incorrect:<\/strong> Most children who run away from their homes have had <strong>troubles<\/strong> with a close relative or family member.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Correct<\/strong>: Most children who run away from their homes have had <strong>trouble<\/strong> with a close relative or family member.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incorrect:<\/strong> If you don\u2019t want to have troubles with the law, you should mend your ways.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Correct:<\/strong> If you don\u2019t want to have <strong>trouble<\/strong> with the law, you should mend your ways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Trouble<\/strong> is commonly used as the object of the verbs <strong>get into<\/strong> and <strong>cause.<\/strong> Note that in this case, it is always used in the singular.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin\u2019s parents are influential people. They bail him out whenever he <strong>gets into trouble.<\/strong> (NOT \u2026. he gets into troubles.)<\/li>\n<li>At that time I didn\u2019t realize <strong>the trouble<\/strong> I had caused. (NOT \u2026 the troubles I had caused.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plural form <strong>troubles<\/strong> can be used to refer to all the problems that a person experiences. It is usually used with the possessive determiner <strong>my, his, her, their or our.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She seemed brooding over her troubles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Expressions with trouble<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Put someone to a lot of trouble:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will never forgive him. He put me to a lot of trouble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Take the trouble to do something<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You may organize the party, but you will have to take the trouble to clean up before you leave.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you for taking the trouble to visit me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Take trouble over something \/ take trouble with something<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She doesn\u2019t take much trouble over \/ with her appearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Take a lot of trouble to do something<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She took great trouble to make the party a success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word trouble is mainly used as an uncountable noun. That means it does not have a plural form. Also it is not normally used with numbers or the article a\/an. Incorrect: Most children&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}