{"id":73480,"date":"2020-03-26T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73480"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:01:59","slug":"forwards-backwards-towards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/forwards-backwards-towards\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward(s), Backward(s), Toward(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>-ward(s)<\/h2>\n<p>Words like\u00a0<b>backward(s), forward(s), northward(s), outward(s)<\/b>\u00a0etc. can be used as adjectives or adverbs.<\/p>\n<h3>Adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>When they are used as adjectives, they do not have\u00a0<b>\u2013s<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African countries are\u00a0<b>backward\u00a0<\/b>in some ways.<\/li>\n<li>He was last seen driving in a\u00a0<b>northward\u00a0<\/b>direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Adverbs<\/h3>\n<p>When these words are adverbs, they can be used with or without\u00a0<b>\u2013s<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are you moving\u00a0<b>backward(s)\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>forward(s)\u00a0<\/b>?<\/li>\n<li>If we keep going\u00a0<b>upward(s)\u00a0<\/b>, we will get to the top.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In figurative expressions such as\u00a0<b>look forward to, bring forward, put forward<\/b>, the form without \u2013s is always used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>put forward\u00a0<\/b>a very interesting suggestion.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>look forward<\/b>\u00a0to hearing from you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-ward(s) Words like\u00a0backward(s), forward(s), northward(s), outward(s)\u00a0etc. can be used as adjectives or adverbs. Adjectives When they are used as adjectives, they do not have\u00a0\u2013s. African countries are\u00a0backward\u00a0in some ways. He was last seen driving&#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":[959,960,2294,2295],"class_list":["post-73480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-forward","tag-forwards","tag-toward","tag-towards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480","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=73480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73481,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480\/revisions\/73481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}