{"id":35288,"date":"2018-07-03T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T23:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35288"},"modified":"2018-07-03T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T23:04:02","slug":"make-do-vs-make-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/make-do-vs-make-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Make-do vs make do"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, subtleties are always interesting. The tutor mentions the distinction between &#8220;make-do&#8221; and &#8220;make do.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:135%;background-color:aliceblue;white-space:pre-wrap\">\nmake-do (adj): improvised.<\/p>\n<p>make do (verb): get by with less resources than might be typical for the context.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (editor). <i>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/i>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/i>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, subtleties are always interesting. The tutor mentions the distinction between &#8220;make-do&#8221; and &#8220;make do.&#8221; make-do (adj): improvised. make do (verb): get by with less resources than might be typical for the context. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/make-do-vs-make-do\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make-do vs make do<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35290,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35288\/revisions\/35290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}