{"id":72737,"date":"2019-11-02T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72737"},"modified":"2019-11-02T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:21:32","slug":"after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"After all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After all<\/strong> can mean \u2018in spite of what was said before\u2019 or \u2018contrary to what was expected\u2019. After all usually goes at the end of a clause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m sorry. I can\u2019t help you after all.<\/li>\n<li>I expected to pass the test, but I failed after all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After all can be used to introduce an important argument. With this meaning, it can go at the beginning or end of a sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OK, I will do the washing up. Somebody has to do it, after all.<\/li>\n<li>I think we should let him decide what he wants to do. After all, he is a big boy now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After all does not mean \u2018finally\u2019, \u2018at last\u2019 or \u2018in the end\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the show we had dinner and went to the park; then we finally went home. (NOT \u2026after all, we went home.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all can mean \u2018in spite of what was said before\u2019 or \u2018contrary to what was expected\u2019. After all usually goes at the end of a clause. I\u2019m sorry. I can\u2019t help you after&#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":[4],"tags":[1802,189,5,1803],"class_list":["post-72737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-after-all","tag-english-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lessons","tag-english-speaking-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72737","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=72737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72738,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72737\/revisions\/72738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}