{"id":72071,"date":"2019-09-14T03:08:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72071"},"modified":"2024-02-13T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:21:42","slug":"a-bit-and-a-bit-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/a-bit-and-a-bit-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit And A Bit Of A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A bit<\/strong> means a little. It is quite common in informal British English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Can you move a bit? (= Can you move a little?)<\/li><li>Can you speak a bit louder? I can\u2019t hear you.<\/li><li>Will you wait a bit?<\/li><li>We were a bit late.<\/li><li>I was a bit worried.<\/li><li>I don\u2019t want to go out now. I am a bit tired.<\/li><li>The watch was a bit expensive; nonetheless I decided to buy it.<\/li><li>She is a bit old to wear those short skirts, isn\u2019t she?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not usually use <strong>a bit<\/strong> and <strong>a little<\/strong> with adjectives expressing positive ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The film was a bit boring. (BUT NOT The film was a bit interesting.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A bit of a<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A bit of a<\/strong> means <strong>rather a<\/strong>. This expression is used before some nouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He is a bit of a fool.<\/li><li>I have got a bit of a problem.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not a bit<\/strong> means <strong>not at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I am not a bit worried. (= I am not at all worried.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See Also<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/and-but-or-because-so.htm\">And, But, Or, So | Worksheet<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/kinds-of-adjectives-worksheet.htm\">Kinds of adjectives worksheet<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/cbse-class-10-grammar-worksheets.htm\">CBSE Class 10 Grammar Worksheets<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/combining-two-sentences-using-too-to-so-that.htm\">Combining two sentences using so..that.. and too&#8230;to<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/prepositions-exercise-for-class-9.htm\">Prepositions exercise for class 9<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/present-perfect-tense-worksheet-cbse-grade-6.htm\">Present perfect tense worksheet for grade 6<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit means a little. It is quite common in informal British English. Can you move a bit? (= Can you move a little?) Can you speak a bit louder? I can\u2019t hear you.&#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":[1197,1199,1198],"class_list":["post-72071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-a-bit","tag-a-bit-of-a","tag-a-little"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72071","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=72071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77121,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72071\/revisions\/77121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}