{"id":72415,"date":"2019-09-29T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T09:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72415"},"modified":"2019-09-29T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T09:03:26","slug":"of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">We use <b>of course<\/b> to mean something like <i>as everybody knows<\/i> or <i>as is obvious<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks as if the sun goes round the earth, but <b>of course<\/b> the earth really goes around the sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Of course <\/b>is not a polite reply to a statement of fact.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Could you help me?\u2019 \u2018<b>Of course<\/b>.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018It is cold.\u2019 \u2018It certainly is.\u2019 (\u2018Of course it is\u2019 would be quite rude, because it would suggest that the first speaker said something too obvious to be worth mentioning.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use of course to mean something like as everybody knows or as is obvious. It looks as if the sun goes round the earth, but of course the earth really goes around the&#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":[394],"class_list":["post-72415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-of-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415","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=72415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72416,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415\/revisions\/72416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}