{"id":72034,"date":"2019-09-13T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72034"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:31:47","slug":"this-that-so-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/this-that-so-through\/","title":{"rendered":"This, That, So, Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This and that<\/strong> can be used with adjectives and adverbs in the same way as so. This usage is very common in informal English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t realize that it was going to be this bad. (=I didn\u2019t realize that it was going to be so bad.)<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t think that he is that clever. (=I don\u2019t think that he is so clever.)<\/li>\n<li>Was she that stupid to trust his again? (=Was she so stupid to trust him again?)<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t understand why she should get this upset. (= I don\u2019t understand why she should get so upset.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Through<\/strong> is commonly used in American English to mean \u2018up to and including\u2019 a particular point of time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The park is open from May <strong>through<\/strong> October. (= The park will be open in May, June, July, August, September and October.)<\/li>\n<li>Our offices are open from Monday<strong> through<\/strong> Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In British English, through is not used in this way. Instead, British people use to\u2026inclusive or until the end of\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The park is open from May to October inclusive.<\/li>\n<li>The park is open from May until the end of October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This and that can be used with adjectives and adverbs in the same way as so. This usage is very common in informal English. I didn\u2019t realize that it was going to be this&#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":[1177,1176,1175,99],"class_list":["post-72034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-so","tag-that","tag-this","tag-through"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034","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=72034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72035,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034\/revisions\/72035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}