{"id":73410,"date":"2020-03-24T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73410"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:44:45","slug":"seem-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/seem-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Seem | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Seem<\/h2>\n<p><b>Seem\u00a0<\/b>is a\u00a0copular verb. It is followed by\u00a0adjectives, not\u00a0adverbs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>seems angry<\/b>\u00a0about something. (NOT He seems angrily about something.)<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>seems depressed.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Seem to be<\/h3>\n<p><b>Seem\u00a0<\/b>is often followed by\u00a0<b>to be<\/b>. In general,<b>\u00a0seem to be\u00a0<\/b>is preferred when we are talking about things that seem definitely to be true.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Things far off\u00a0<b>seem to be\u00a0<\/b>small.<\/li>\n<li>The milk\u00a0<b>seems to be<\/b>\u00a0sterilised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In many cases both\u00a0<b>seem\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>seem to be\u00a0<\/b>are possible.<\/p>\n<h3>With nouns<\/h3>\n<p><b>Seem to be<\/b>\u00a0is normal before nouns or noun phrases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u00a0<b>seems to be\u00a0<\/b>some misunderstanding between them.<\/li>\n<li>I spoke to a man who\u00a0<b>seemed to be\u00a0<\/b>the boss.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>seems to be\u00a0<\/b>a nice girl.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Seem with infinitives<\/h3>\n<p><b>Seem\u00a0<\/b>can be followed by the infinitives of other verbs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>seem to have\u00a0<\/b>made a mistake.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>seems to need\u00a0<\/b>help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes it is possible to begin these sentences with a\u00a0preparatory it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>It seems\u00a0<\/b>that they have made a mistake.<\/li>\n<li><b>It seems<\/b>\u00a0that she needs help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seem Seem\u00a0is a\u00a0copular verb. It is followed by\u00a0adjectives, not\u00a0adverbs. He\u00a0seems angry\u00a0about something. (NOT He seems angrily about something.) She\u00a0seems depressed. Seem to be Seem\u00a0is often followed by\u00a0to be. In general,\u00a0seem to be\u00a0is preferred when&#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":[2231,2230,2232],"class_list":["post-73410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-english-usage","tag-seem","tag-using-seem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73410","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=73410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73411,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73410\/revisions\/73411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}