{"id":72373,"date":"2019-09-26T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72373"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:05:35","slug":"likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If something is likely<\/b> to happen, it is probably going to happen.<\/p>\n
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  • She is likely<\/b> to win. (= She is probably going to win.)<\/li>\n
  • I\u2019m likely<\/b> to be busy tomorrow.<\/li>\n
  • He\u2019s likely<\/b> to come in the evening.<\/li>\n
  • It\u2019s likely<\/b> to rain.<\/li>\n
  • The driver\u2019s careless was the most likely<\/b> cause of the accident.<\/li>\n
  • Interest rates are likely <\/b>to rise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The structure more than likely<\/b> is used to mean almost certain.<\/p>\n

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    • It\u2019s more than likely<\/b> that our candidate will win. (= It is almost certain that our candidate will win.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Likely<\/b> can be used before a noun to mean suitable.<\/p>\n

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      • She is a likely <\/b>candidate for the job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Unlikely<\/b> is the opposite of likely<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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        • She is unlikely<\/b> to recognize me. (= She will probably not recognize me.)<\/li>\n
        • He is unlikely<\/b> to agree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          If something is likely to happen, it is probably going to happen. She is likely to win. (= She is probably going to win.) I\u2019m likely to be busy tomorrow. He\u2019s likely to come...<\/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":[1598,1599],"class_list":["post-72373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-likely","tag-using-likely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72373","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=72373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72374,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72373\/revisions\/72374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}