{"id":73484,"date":"2020-03-26T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73484"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:06:05","slug":"well-vs-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/well-vs-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Well vs. Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Well<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>good<\/b>\u00a0can have similar meanings, but in this case\u00a0<b>well<\/b>\u00a0is an adverb, while\u00a0<b>good\u00a0<\/b>is an adjective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He teaches very\u00a0<b>well<\/b>. (adverb modifying teaches)<\/li>\n<li>He is a\u00a0<b>good\u00a0<\/b>teacher. (adjective modifying teacher.)<\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>good<\/b>. (NOT He is well.)<\/li>\n<li>She speaks English\u00a0<b>well<\/b>. (NOT She speaks English good.)<\/li>\n<li>She speaks\u00a0<b>good\u00a0<\/b>English.<\/li>\n<li>Her English is\u00a0<b>good<\/b>. (NOT Her English is well.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that we cannot say\u00a0<i>She speaks well English<\/i>. (Adverbs cannot usually go between the verb and the object.)<\/p>\n<p>There is also an adjective\u00a0<b>well<\/b>, meaning \u2018in good health\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t feel very\u00a0<b>well<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018How are you?\u2019 \u2018Quite\u00a0<b>well<\/b>, thanks.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that the adjective\u00a0<b>well<\/b>\u00a0is only used to talk about health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well\u00a0and\u00a0good\u00a0can have similar meanings, but in this case\u00a0well\u00a0is an adverb, while\u00a0good\u00a0is an adjective. He teaches very\u00a0well. (adverb modifying teaches) He is a\u00a0good\u00a0teacher. (adjective modifying teacher.) He is\u00a0good. (NOT He is well.) She speaks English\u00a0well.&#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":[2298,68,2300,2299],"class_list":["post-73484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-good","tag-good-or-well","tag-good-vs-well","tag-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73484","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=73484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73485,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73484\/revisions\/73485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}