{"id":72386,"date":"2019-09-26T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72386"},"modified":"2019-09-26T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:18:00","slug":"may-might-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/may-might-but\/","title":{"rendered":"May\/Might &#8230; But"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">This structure means the same as <i>although<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <b>may <\/b>be an intelligent person, <b>but<\/b> he doesn\u2019t know how to behave. (= Although he is an intelligent person, he doesn\u2019t know how to behave.)<\/li>\n<li>It <b>may <\/b>be a nice house, <b>but<\/b> it requires a lot of repairs. (= Although it is a nice house, it requires a lot of repairs.)<\/li>\n<li>He <b>may <\/b>be rich, <b>but<\/b> that doesn\u2019t mean that he is better than me. (= Although he is rich, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that he is better than me.)<\/li>\n<li>She<b> may<\/b> not be good-looking, <b>but<\/b> she has a heart of gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>May in expressions of wishes and hopes<\/h2>\n<p><b> May <\/b>is often used in formal expressions of wishes and hopes. In this case, <b>may<\/b> usually comes at the beginning of the sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May God bless you!<\/li>\n<li>May the Heavens shower their choicest blessings upon the young couple!<\/li>\n<li>May God be with you!<\/li>\n<li>May the New Year bring you all the happiness!<\/li>\n<li>May she rest in peace! (Prayer for a dead person)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This structure means the same as although. He may be an intelligent person, but he doesn\u2019t know how to behave. (= Although he is an intelligent person, he doesn\u2019t know how to behave.) 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":[1258,1611,1613,1612],"class_list":["post-72386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-although","tag-may","tag-may-but","tag-might"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72386","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=72386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72387,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72386\/revisions\/72387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}