{"id":73398,"date":"2020-03-24T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73398"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:20:00","slug":"rather-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/rather-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rather | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rather<\/b>\u00a0is an\u00a0adverb of degree. Its meaning is similar to\u00a0<b>fairly\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>quite.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>rather tall.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>The interview was\u00a0<b>rather tough.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With adjectives and adverbs,\u00a0<b>rather<\/b>\u00a0suggests \u2018more than is usual\u2019 \u2018more than was expected\u2019 and similar ideas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I speak French\u00a0<b>rather well.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<b>rather warm<\/b>\u00a0in here. Let\u2019s open the window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Rather<\/b>\u00a0can modify\u00a0<b>comparatives\u00a0<\/b>and<b>\u00a0too.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0<b>rather later than\u00a0<\/b>I thought.<\/li>\n<li>He talks<b>\u00a0rather too\u00a0<\/b>much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>With nouns<\/h3>\n<p><b>Rather<\/b>\u00a0can modify noun phrases, with or without adjectives. It generally comes before\u00a0articles, but can also come after\u00a0<b>a\/an<\/b>\u00a0if there is an adjective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>rather a fool.\u00a0<\/b>(NOT He is a rather fool.)<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<b>a rather good idea.\u00a0<\/b>(OR It was rather a good idea.)<\/li>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>rather a successful actor.\u00a0<\/b>(OR She is a rather successful actor.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Rather\u00a0<\/b>is not normally used before a\u00a0plural noun\u00a0with no adjective.<\/p>\n<h3>With verbs<\/h3>\n<p><b>Rather\u00a0<\/b>can modify\u00a0verbs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>rather enjoys<\/b>\u00a0doing nothing.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>rather think\u00a0<\/b>we are going to lose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather\u00a0is an\u00a0adverb of degree. Its meaning is similar to\u00a0fairly\u00a0and\u00a0quite. She is\u00a0rather tall. The interview was\u00a0rather tough. With adjectives and adverbs,\u00a0rather\u00a0suggests \u2018more than is usual\u2019 \u2018more than was expected\u2019 and similar ideas. I speak French\u00a0rather&#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":[1475,1476,2215],"class_list":["post-73398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-quite","tag-rather","tag-rather-as-an-adverb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398","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=73398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73399,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398\/revisions\/73399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}