{"id":73464,"date":"2020-03-26T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73464"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:21:49","slug":"up-and-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/up-and-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Up And Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Down<\/b>\u00a0means \u2018from a higher part to a lower part of something\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rain came\u00a0<b>down\u00a0<\/b>heavily.<\/li>\n<li>We ran\u00a0<b>down\u00a0<\/b>the road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Down<\/b>\u00a0can also mean\u00a0<i>along<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She walked\u00a0<b>down<\/b>\u00a0the road. (= She walked along the road.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that to pay\u00a0<i>$10 down<\/i>\u00a0is to pay $10 now and the rest later.<\/p>\n<h3>Up<\/h3>\n<p><b>Up\u00a0<\/b>means to or in a high(er) or (more) important place, degree etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pull your socks\u00a0<b>up<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Are you going\u00a0<b>up\u00a0<\/b>to London (i.e. from the country) soon?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trains to important places are often called\u00a0<b>up trains<\/b>\u00a0and trains from important places\u00a0<b>down trains<\/b>. But note that in the US,\u00a0<b>downtown<\/b>\u00a0normally means in\/to the central business\/entertainment area.<\/p>\n<p>People often use\u00a0<b>up<\/b>\u00a0for movements towards the north, and\u00a0<b>down<\/b>\u00a0for movements towards the south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down\u00a0means \u2018from a higher part to a lower part of something\u2019. The rain came\u00a0down\u00a0heavily. We ran\u00a0down\u00a0the road. Down\u00a0can also mean\u00a0along. She walked\u00a0down\u00a0the road. (= She walked along the road.) Note that to pay\u00a0$10 down\u00a0is&#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":[2285,2284],"class_list":["post-73464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-up-and-down","tag-up-vs-down-up-or-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73464","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=73464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73465,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73464\/revisions\/73465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}