{"id":72222,"date":"2019-09-17T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72222"},"modified":"2019-09-17T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:49:08","slug":"the-pronunciation-of-article-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-pronunciation-of-article-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pronunciation Of Article The"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">The word <b>the <\/b>has three pronunciations. When it is followed by a word that begins with a vowel sound, the <b>e<\/b> in <b>the<\/b> is pronounced like the <b>I<\/b> in words like <i>pit<\/i> and <i>sit<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The egg<\/b> is pronounced like <i>thi egg<\/i>. <b>The old man <\/b>is pronounced like <i>thi old man<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>When <b>the<\/b> is followed by a consonant sound, the <b>e<\/b> in <b>the<\/b> is pronounced like the <b>a<\/b> in <b>China<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <b>the man<\/b> is pronounced like <i>tha man<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>e<\/b> in <b>the<\/b> is sometimes also pronounced like the <b>ee<\/b> in <b>feel<\/b> and <b>peel<\/b>. This pronunciation is used when we want to emphasize something.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word the has three pronunciations. When it is followed by a word that begins with a vowel sound, the e in the is pronounced like the I in words like pit and sit.&#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":[1410,1412,1411],"class_list":["post-72222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-article-the","tag-pronunciation-of-the","tag-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72222","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=72222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72223,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72222\/revisions\/72223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}