{"id":72326,"date":"2019-09-20T05:48:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72326"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:48:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:48:27","slug":"how-vs-what-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-vs-what-like\/","title":{"rendered":"How vs. What&#8230;like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">We use <b>how <\/b>to ask about things that change \u2019 for example, people\u2019s health and moods. We use <b>what &#8212; like?<\/b> to ask about things that do not change &#8211; for example, people\u2019s looks and character.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018<b>How<\/b> is she?\u2019 \u2018She is very well.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><b>What <\/b>is she <b>like? <\/b> She is a bit shy. (NOT How is she?)<\/li>\n<li><b>What <\/b>does she look<b> like? <\/b> She is short, dark and pretty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We often use <b>how <\/b>to ask about people\u2019s reactions to their experiences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018<b>How <\/b>was the film?\u2019 \u2018Not bad.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<b>How <\/b>is your new job?\u2019 \u2018Quite interesting.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What &#8212; like? <\/b>is also possible in cases like these.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use how to ask about things that change \u2019 for example, people\u2019s health and moods. We use what &#8212; like? to ask about things that do not change &#8211; for example, people\u2019s looks&#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":[1541,1543,1542],"class_list":["post-72326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-how","tag-how-or-what-like","tag-what-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72326","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=72326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72327,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72326\/revisions\/72327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}