{"id":73384,"date":"2020-03-24T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73384"},"modified":"2020-03-24T08:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:43:37","slug":"perhaps-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/perhaps-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>maybe<\/b>\u00a0have the same meaning.\u00a0<b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0is more formal than\u00a0<b>maybe<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0is used to suggest that you are not certain about something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0we have met before.<\/li>\n<li><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0she missed the train.<\/li>\n<li><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0she made a mistake.<\/li>\n<li><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0he was angry.<\/li>\n<li>She was\u00a0<b>perhaps<\/b>\u00a0the oldest among them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0is also used when you are simply guessing a number or an amount.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were\u00a0<b>perhaps<\/b>\u00a0twenty girls in the class.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>perhaps<\/b>\u00a0eighty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Perhaps in polite requests<\/h2>\n<p><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0is often used to make a suggestion or a request sound more polite.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0you should hire a professional to fix that.<\/li>\n<li>She doesn\u2019t look well \u2013\u00a0<b>perhaps<\/b>\u00a0she should consult a doctor.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t know how to use this fax machine.\u00a0<b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0you could help.<\/li>\n<li><b>Perhaps<\/b>\u00a0you could offer an explanation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps\u00a0and\u00a0maybe\u00a0have the same meaning.\u00a0Perhaps\u00a0is more formal than\u00a0maybe. Perhaps\u00a0is used to suggest that you are not certain about something. Perhaps\u00a0we have met before. Perhaps\u00a0she missed the train. Perhaps\u00a0she made a mistake. Perhaps\u00a0he was angry. She&#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":[2199,2201,2200],"class_list":["post-73384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-perhaps","tag-perhaps-vs-maybe","tag-using-perhaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384","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=73384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73385,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384\/revisions\/73385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}