{"id":73188,"date":"2020-03-21T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73188"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:53:55","slug":"greeting-people-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/greeting-people-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeting People In English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you meet people greet them saying\u00a0<b>Good morning\/afternoon\/evening.<\/b>\u00a0This is formal. In an informal style say\u00a0<b>Hello\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>Hi.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Good morning<\/b>\u00a0is used before 12 pm. In most people\u2019s speech,\u00a0<b>afternoon\u00a0<\/b>starts after lunch and changes to\u00a0<b>evening\u00a0<\/b>after normal working hours.<\/p>\n<p><b>Evening<\/b>\u00a0changes to\u00a0<b>night<\/b>\u00a0more or less at bedtime. But note that\u00a0<b>\u2018Good evening\u2019<\/b>\u00a0usually has the sense of\u00a0<b>\u2018Hello\u2019<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>\u2018Good night\u2019<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>\u2018Goodbye\u2019<\/b>. Good night is not used to greet people.<\/p>\n<p>Common forms of leave taking are given below.<\/p>\n<p>Good night.<br \/>\nSee you. (Informal)<br \/>\nSee you later. (Informal)<br \/>\nSee you tomorrow\/next week. (Informal)<br \/>\nTake care. (Informal)<br \/>\nIt was nice to meet you.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of conversation is given below.<\/p>\n<p>John: Good evening. Terrible weather, isn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nPeter: Yes, dreadful.<br \/>\nJohn: Hasn&#8217;t stopped raining for days. Well, I must be going. Good night.<br \/>\nPeter: Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you meet people greet them saying\u00a0Good morning\/afternoon\/evening.\u00a0This is formal. In an informal style say\u00a0Hello\u00a0or\u00a0Hi. Good morning\u00a0is used before 12 pm. In most people\u2019s speech,\u00a0afternoon\u00a0starts after lunch and changes to\u00a0evening\u00a0after normal working hours. Evening\u00a0changes&#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":[5,2082],"class_list":["post-73188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lessons","tag-greeting-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73188","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=73188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73189,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73188\/revisions\/73189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}