{"id":35989,"date":"2018-10-28T02:03:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35989"},"modified":"2018-10-28T02:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:03:03","slug":"english-repeating-sound-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-repeating-sound-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"English, repeating sound patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, the way words sound is important. The tutor mentions a pattern he&#8217;s noticed.<\/h2>\n<p>Lately repeating sounds, but with different meanings, have caught my attention, such as the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nShe walked along a long building.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe knights sat around a round table.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In each pattern, the first time the sounds mean a preposition; the second, an article and adjective. One could stretch for another example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHe saw past the door, which was ajar, a jar.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neat, eh?<\/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, the way words sound is important. The tutor mentions a pattern he&#8217;s noticed. Lately repeating sounds, but with different meanings, have caught my attention, such as the following: She walked along a long building. Here&#8217;s another example: The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-repeating-sound-patterns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, repeating sound patterns<\/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-35989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35989","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=35989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35992,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35989\/revisions\/35992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}