{"id":72127,"date":"2019-09-15T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72127"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:23:22","slug":"appear-as-a-copular-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/appear-as-a-copular-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Appear As A Copular Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>Appear <\/b>can be used as a copular verb. It is used to say how things look. It is used in similar ways to<b> seem.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She <b>appeared <\/b>mighty pleased.<\/li>\n<li>He <b>appears <\/b> (to be) angry today.<\/li>\n<li>They do not <b>appear <\/b>to be happy.<\/li>\n<li>There <b>appears <\/b>to be some misunderstanding between them.<\/li>\n<li>The thieves <b>appear <\/b>to have left the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When <b>appear<\/b> is used as a copular verb, it is followed by an adjective, not an adverb.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She <b>appears<\/b> to be <b>angry. <\/b> (<b>NOT<\/b> angrily)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Appear <\/b>can also be used as a non-copular verb. It then means <i>come into sight<\/i>, or <i>arrive<\/i>. In this case it is used with an adverb, not an adjective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She <b>suddenly appeared <\/b>in the doorway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appear can be used as a copular verb. It is used to say how things look. It is used in similar ways to seem. She appeared mighty pleased. He appears (to be) angry today.&#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":[1270,1272,1271],"class_list":["post-72127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-appear","tag-copular-verb-appear","tag-copular-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72127","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=72127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72128,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72127\/revisions\/72128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}