{"id":641,"date":"2010-02-04T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2010-02-04T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:15:58","slug":"sexy-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/sexy-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexy Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another word about <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=608\">prepositions<\/a>, because I know that&#8217;s what really drives the traffic to my site:<\/p>\n<p>Why do we Americans insist on adding one where there needs be none?\u00a0 I mean, I understand a preposition&#8217;s use with verbs like <em>get<\/em>, <em>make<\/em>, or <em>take<\/em>.\u00a0 But it baffles me when people say things like, &#8220;Let&#8217;s reflect back on our week.&#8221;\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t <em>reflect<\/em> already mean &#8216;look back&#8217;?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t you just say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s reflect on our week&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Same with <em>refer<\/em>.\u00a0 Just <em>refer<\/em>.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t &#8216;refer back&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Or another one, &#8216;continue on&#8217;.\u00a0 How else would you continue but on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another word about prepositions, because I know that&#8217;s what really drives the traffic to my site: Why do we Americans insist on adding one where there needs be none?\u00a0 I mean, I understand a preposition&#8217;s use with verbs like get, make, or take.\u00a0 But it baffles me when people say things like, &#8220;Let&#8217;s reflect back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/sexy-grammar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sexy Grammar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}