{"id":72818,"date":"2019-11-11T06:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72818"},"modified":"2019-11-11T06:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:15:19","slug":"feel-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/feel-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Conversational structures with Feel<\/h2>\n<h3>Feel + adjective\/ noun complement<\/h3>\n<p>Feel can be used with a personal subject (I, you, John etc.) to mean \u2018experience the condition of one\u2019s own mind or body\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I feel fine.<\/li>\n<li>Do you feel happy?<\/li>\n<li>He was beginning to feel sleepy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Feel like<\/h3>\n<p>Feel like can mean \u2018want\u2019 or \u2018would like\u2019. In this sense, feel like is often followed by an \u2013ing form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I feel like dancing. (I would like to dance.)<\/li>\n<li>I felt like laughing, but I didn\u2019t dare. (= I wanted to laugh, but I didn\u2019t dare.)<\/li>\n<li>I felt like crying. (= I wanted to cry.)<\/li>\n<li>I felt like crying. (= I wanted to cry.)<\/li>\n<li>I felt like running away. (NOT I felt like to run away.)<\/li>\n<li>I felt like laughing.<\/li>\n<li>I felt like singing.<\/li>\n<li>I felt like eating something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grammar notes<\/h3>\n<p>There is a difference between felt like and felt as if \/ though.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I felt like dancing. (= I wanted to dance.)<\/li>\n<li>I felt as if I was dancing. (= It seemed as if I was dancing.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversational structures with Feel Feel + adjective\/ noun complement Feel can be used with a personal subject (I, you, John etc.) to mean \u2018experience the condition of one\u2019s own mind or body\u2019. I feel&#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":[1485,1857],"class_list":["post-72818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-feel","tag-feel-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72818","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=72818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72819,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72818\/revisions\/72819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}