{"id":72209,"date":"2019-09-17T05:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72209"},"modified":"2019-09-17T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:25:16","slug":"change-of-tenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/change-of-tenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Of Tenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">The first verb in a sentence establishes the tense of any verb that comes later. If you begin writing in the past, don\u2019t change to the present. Similarly, if you begin writing in the present, don\u2019t change to the past.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: In the story, the king <b>loses<\/b> his kingdom, but he <b>regained<\/b> everything in the end.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: In the story, the king <b>loses<\/b> his kingdom, but he <b>regains<\/b> everything in the end.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: The team <b>won<\/b> yesterday, but <b>goes<\/b> and <b>loses<\/b> this afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: The team <b>won <\/b>yesterday, but <b>went<\/b> and <b>lost<\/b> this afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first verb in a sentence establishes the tense of any verb that comes later. If you begin writing in the past, don\u2019t change to the present. Similarly, if you begin writing in the&#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":[1391,1390,344],"class_list":["post-72209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-change-of-tenses","tag-sequence-of-tenses","tag-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72209","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=72209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72210,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72209\/revisions\/72210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}