{"id":72340,"date":"2019-09-20T06:31:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72340"},"modified":"2019-09-20T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:31:20","slug":"in-spite-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/in-spite-of\/","title":{"rendered":"In Spite Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>In spite of<\/b> means <i>notwithstanding<\/i>. It is used as a preposition. <b>In spite of + noun <\/b>means more or less the same as<b> although + clause. <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They went out <b>in spite of the rain. <\/b> (=They went out <b>although it was raining. <\/b>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In more formal English, <b>despite <\/b>can be used in the same way as <b>in spite of. <\/b><\/p>\n<h3>In spite of and because of<\/h3>\n<p><b>In spite of<\/b> is the opposite of <b>because of.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She passed her exam <b>in spite of <\/b>her teacher. (= She had a bad teacher.)<\/li>\n<li>She passed her exam <b>because of <\/b>her teacher. (=She had a good teacher.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>In spite of<\/b> can be followed by an <b>-ing form.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I enjoyed the film <b>in spite of having <\/b>a headache.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of means notwithstanding. It is used as a preposition. In spite of + noun means more or less the same as although + clause. They went out in spite of the rain.&#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":[1322,1374],"class_list":["post-72340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-because-of","tag-in-spite-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72340","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=72340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72341,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72340\/revisions\/72341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}