{"id":72205,"date":"2019-09-16T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72205"},"modified":"2019-09-16T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T08:53:54","slug":"care-about-vs-care-for-vs-take-care-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/care-about-vs-care-for-vs-take-care-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Care About vs. Care For vs. Take Care Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>I don\u2019t <b>care what happens. <\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u2018You have put on a lot of weight.\u2019 \u2018I <b>don\u2019t care.\u2019 <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before an object, we use <b>care about<\/b>. But note that <b>about <\/b>is usually dropped before a question word or a conjunction.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>She never <b>cared about <\/b>her appearance.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t <b>care about <\/b>your opinion.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t <b>care how <\/b>much it costs. (<b>NOT <\/b>I don\u2019t care about how much it costs.)<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t <b>care whether <\/b>it rains or not. (NOT I don\u2019t care about whether it &#8212;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Couldn\u2019t care less<\/h3>\n<p><b>I couldn\u2019t care less<\/b> means <b>I don\u2019t care at all<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>\u2018She is really upset with you.\u2019 \u2018I <b>couldn\u2019t care less.\u2019 <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Care for<\/h3>\n<p><b>Care for<\/b> means <i>have a liking for<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>I really <b>care for you, <\/b> dear. (= I am really font of you, dear.)<\/li>\n<li>Would you <b>care for <\/b>a cup of coffee? (= Would you like a cup of coffee?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Care to<\/h3>\n<p><b>Care to <\/b>can mean <i>be willing to.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you care to go for a walk?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Take care of<\/h3>\n<p><b>Take care of <\/b>means <i>look after.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nurses take care of sick people in hospital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Take care<\/b> means<i> be on the watch.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take care when you are crossing the road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Take care <\/b>is also used as a formula when saying goodbye.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Bye Ann.\u2019 \u2018By Peter. Take care.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t care what happens. \u2018You have put on a lot of weight.\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t care.\u2019 Before an object, we use care about. But note that about is usually dropped before a question word&#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":[1384,1385,1386,1387],"class_list":["post-72205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-care-about","tag-care-for","tag-care-to","tag-expressions-with-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72205","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=72205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72206,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72205\/revisions\/72206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}