{"id":73476,"date":"2020-03-26T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73476"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:34:06","slug":"want-english-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/want-english-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Want | English Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Want<\/h2>\n<p>After\u00a0<b>want<\/b>, we normally use an infinitive with\u00a0<b>to.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t<b>\u00a0want to talk<\/b>\u00a0to her again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An\u00a0<b>object + infinitive<\/b>\u00a0structure is also possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>wants me to clear\u00a0<\/b>her doubts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>That-clauses\u00a0<\/b>are not normally used after<b>\u00a0want.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Structures<\/h3>\n<p><b>Want\u00a0<\/b>can be followed by an<b>\u00a0object + complement.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>want him back.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>wanted him dead<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>want the job finished\u00a0<\/b>by Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To be<\/b>\u00a0or<b>\u00a0as\u00a0<\/b>is used before a noun complement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>want you to be my wife.\u00a0<\/b>(OR I\u00a0<b>want you as my wife.\u00a0<\/b>)<br \/>\n(NOT I want you my wife.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>be wanting<\/h5>\n<p><b>Be wanting\u00a0<\/b>means\u00a0<i>be missing<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>lacking.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few pages of this book\u00a0<b>are wanting.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>He<b>\u00a0is wanting\u00a0<\/b>in courtesy. (= He is not polite.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Want meaning \u2018need\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>In informal British English,\u00a0<b>want\u00a0<\/b>is often used to mean\u00a0<i>\u2018need\u2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your hair\u00a0<b>wants a good brush.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>That car\u00a0<b>wants a clean.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this case,\u00a0<b>want<\/b>\u00a0can be followed by an\u00a0<b>\u2013ing form.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That car\u00a0<b>wants cleaning.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>You hair\u00a0<b>wants brushing.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want After\u00a0want, we normally use an infinitive with\u00a0to. I don\u2019t\u00a0want to talk\u00a0to her again. An\u00a0object + infinitive\u00a0structure is also possible. She\u00a0wants me to clear\u00a0her doubts. That-clauses\u00a0are not normally used after\u00a0want. Structures Want\u00a0can be followed&#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":[21],"tags":[94,2293],"class_list":["post-73476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-english-vocabulary","tag-want"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476","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=73476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73477,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476\/revisions\/73477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}