{"id":72332,"date":"2019-09-20T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72332"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:59:42","slug":"if-i-were-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/if-i-were-you\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Were You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">We often use the structure<b> If I were you&#8230;\u00a0 <\/b>to give advice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If I were <\/b>you, I would accept that job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>If I was you &#8230;<\/b> is also possible, but some people consider it incorrect.<\/p>\n<h3>If only<\/h3>\n<p><b> If only &#8230;..! <\/b>means the same as <b>I wish &#8230;. <\/b><\/p>\n<h5>tenses<\/h5>\n<p>After <b>if only &#8230;!<\/b> we use a past tense to talk about the present.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If only<\/b> I<b> was <\/b>better-looking!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can use <b>were <\/b>instead of <b>was.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If only <\/b>I <b>were <\/b>better looking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To refer to the future, we use <b>would + infinitive.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If only<\/b> it <b>would stop <\/b>raining, we could go out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To refer to the past, we use <b>had + past participle.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>If only <\/b>she <b>hadn\u2019t told<\/b> the police, everything would have been all right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often use the structure If I were you&#8230;\u00a0 to give advice. If I were you, I would accept that job. If I was you &#8230; is also possible, but some people consider it&#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":[1548,1547],"class_list":["post-72332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-if-i-was-you-or-if-i-were-you","tag-if-i-were-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332","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=72332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72333,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332\/revisions\/72333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}