{"id":73272,"date":"2020-03-23T06:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73272"},"modified":"2020-03-23T06:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:22:36","slug":"honestly-frankly-no-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/honestly-frankly-no-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Honestly | Frankly | No Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key words and phrases<\/p>\n<p>Honestly<br \/>\nFrankly<br \/>\nNo doubt<\/p>\n<p><b>Honestly\u00a0<\/b>can be used to claim that one is speaking sincerely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Honestly<\/b>, I never said a word to him about the money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both\u00a0<b>honestly\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>frankly\u00a0<\/b>can introduce critical remarks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018<b>Honestly<\/b>, John, why do you have to be so rude?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018What do you think of my hair?\u2019 \u2018<b>Frankly<\/b>, dear, it is a disaster.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>No doubt\u00a0<\/b>suggests that the speaker thinks something is probable, but doesn\u2019t know for certain himself or herself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>No doubt<\/b>, the Romans enjoyed telling jokes, just like us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grammar notes<\/h3>\n<p><b>No doubt\u00a0<\/b>is often used to mean\u00a0<i>probably<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>I suppose<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>No doubt<\/b>, it will rain soon.<\/li>\n<li>You are tired,\u00a0<b>no doubt<\/b>. I will make you a cup of tea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>No doubt\u00a0<\/b>is not used alone to say that something is certain. Possible expressions are\u00a0<b>there is no doubt that\u00a0<\/b>(formal),\u00a0<b>without any doubt\u00a0<\/b>(formal),\u00a0<b>certainly and definitely<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>There is no doubt that<\/b>\u00a0the world is getting warmer. (NOT No doubt that the world is getting warmer.)<\/li>\n<li>Cycling is\u00a0<b>definitely<\/b>\u00a0healthier than driving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key words and phrases Honestly Frankly No doubt Honestly\u00a0can be used to claim that one is speaking sincerely. Honestly, I never said a word to him about the money. Both\u00a0honestly\u00a0and\u00a0frankly\u00a0can introduce critical remarks. \u2018Honestly,&#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":[2127,2125,2124,2126],"class_list":["post-73272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-expressions","tag-frankly","tag-honestly","tag-no-doubt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73272","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=73272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73273,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73272\/revisions\/73273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}