{"id":73488,"date":"2020-03-26T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73488"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:10:48","slug":"whether-vs-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/whether-vs-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether vs. If"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Whether and If<\/h2>\n<p>We can generally use both\u00a0<b>whether<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>if\u00a0<\/b>to introduce indirect\u00a0<b>yes\/no<\/b>\u00a0questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am not sure\u00a0<b>whether\/if\u00a0<\/b>she will come.<\/li>\n<li>I asked\u00a0<b>whether\/if\u00a0<\/b>she had any letters for me.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t know\u00a0<b>whether\/if\u00a0<\/b>I can come or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cases where only whether is possible<\/h3>\n<p>After prepositions only\u00a0<b>whether<\/b>\u00a0is possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was a big argument\u00a0<b>about whether\u00a0<\/b>we should move to a new house. (NOT There was a big argument about if \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u2019t settled the question\u00a0<b>of whether\u00a0<\/b>I should settle abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before\u00a0<b>to-infinitives<\/b>, only\u00a0<b>whether\u00a0<\/b>is possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They can decide\u00a0<b>whether to get\u00a0<\/b>married now or wait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether and If We can generally use both\u00a0whether\u00a0and\u00a0if\u00a0to introduce indirect\u00a0yes\/no\u00a0questions. I am not sure\u00a0whether\/if\u00a0she will come. I asked\u00a0whether\/if\u00a0she had any letters for me. I don\u2019t know\u00a0whether\/if\u00a0I can come or not. Cases where only whether&#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":[486,2302,2304,2303],"class_list":["post-73488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-if","tag-whether","tag-whether-or-if","tag-whether-vs-if"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73488","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=73488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73489,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73488\/revisions\/73489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}