{"id":73370,"date":"2020-03-24T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T07:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73370"},"modified":"2020-03-24T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T07:32:05","slug":"once-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/once-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Once | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Once\u00a0<\/b>means \u2018on one occasion\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I only went once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Once<\/b>\u00a0can also mean \u2018at some time in the past\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Once\u00a0<\/b>(upon a time) there was a princess.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that to refer to an indefinite time in the future, we use<b>\u00a0sometime<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>one day<\/b>, not once.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Come up and see me\u00a0<b>sometime.<\/b>\u00a0(NOT \u2026 see me once.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>As a conjunction<\/h3>\n<p><b>Once\u00a0<\/b>can be used as a\u00a0conjunction\u00a0meaning \u2018after\u2019, \u2018as soon as\u2019. It is most often used with a perfect\u00a0tense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would like to go for a walk\u00a0<b>once\u00a0<\/b>the rain\u00a0<b>has stopped.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Once\u00a0<\/b>he\u00a0<b>had found<\/b>\u00a0somewhere to live he started looking for work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once\u00a0means \u2018on one occasion\u2019. I only went once. Once\u00a0can also mean \u2018at some time in the past\u2019. Once\u00a0(upon a time) there was a princess. Note that to refer to an indefinite time in 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":[2179,2180],"class_list":["post-73370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-once","tag-using-once"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370","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=73370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73371,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370\/revisions\/73371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}