{"id":73444,"date":"2020-03-26T05:58:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73444"},"modified":"2020-03-26T05:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:58:06","slug":"take-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/take-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Take | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can use<b>\u00a0take<\/b>\u00a0to say how much time we need to do something. Different structures are possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Person + take + time + infinitive<\/h3>\n<p>When the person is the subject, we use the structure\u00a0<b>person + take + time + infinitive<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He took 5 years to finish the project.<\/li>\n<li>I took three hours to get home.<\/li>\n<li>They took all day to clean the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Activity + take + person + time + infinitive<\/h3>\n<p>The activity can be the subject<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project took him five years to finish.<\/li>\n<li>The room took them all day to clean.<\/li>\n<li>The ferry took them two hours to unload.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is also possible to begin these sentences with a preparatory<b>\u00a0it<\/b>. The word order is as follows:\u00a0<b>it + take + person + time + infinitive<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It took him five years to finish the project.<\/li>\n<li>It took them all day to clean the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can use\u00a0take\u00a0to say how much time we need to do something. Different structures are possible. Person + take + time + infinitive When the person is the subject, we use the structure\u00a0person +&#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":[1074,2260,1172],"class_list":["post-73444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-english-grammar","tag-structures-with-take","tag-take"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73444","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=73444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73445,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73444\/revisions\/73445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}