{"id":72184,"date":"2019-09-16T06:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72184"},"modified":"2019-09-16T06:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:08:05","slug":"big-vs-large-vs-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/big-vs-large-vs-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Big vs. Large vs. Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>Big <\/b>and <b>large <\/b>are used mostly with concrete nouns &#8211; the names of things you can see, touch etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have a <b>big\/large house <\/b>in the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Great <\/b> is used mostly with abstract nouns &#8211; things you cannot see, touch etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a <b>great mistake. <\/b><\/li>\n<li>I have <b>great respect <\/b>for her ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Big<\/b> can be used with countable abstract nouns in an informal style. <b>Large<\/b> is not used with abstract nouns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are making a <b>big mistake. <\/b> (NOT &#8212;a large mistake.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With uncountable concrete nouns, none of these words can be used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have got <b>a lot of luggage.<\/b> (NOT &#8212; big\/large\/great luggage.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference: Practical English Usage by Michael Swan Published By Oxford University Press<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big and large are used mostly with concrete nouns &#8211; the names of things you can see, touch etc. They have a big\/large house in the city. Great is used mostly with abstract nouns&#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":[1358,1361,1360,1359],"class_list":["post-72184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-big","tag-big-or-large","tag-great","tag-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72184","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=72184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72185,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72184\/revisions\/72185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}