{"id":36963,"date":"2019-01-25T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=36963"},"modified":"2019-01-25T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:22:50","slug":"english-expressions-more-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-expressions-more-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"English: expressions: more or less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, the literal meaning of a word or phrase is important. The tutor opines about the expression &#8220;more or less.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n<p>Here is my definition of the expression &#8220;more or less&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>more or less (adverb)<\/em>: true for practical purposes, if not absolutely.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:green\">\nShe drinks just one glass of wine per week; she&#8217;s quit drinking, more or less.<\/p>\n<p>\nI looked up <em>more or less<\/em> in a few dictionaries, but failed to find it. Yet, it&#8217;s an expression some people use with great meaning.<\/p>\n\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 literal meaning of a word or phrase is important. The tutor opines about the expression &#8220;more or less.&#8221; Here is my definition of the expression &#8220;more or less&#8221;: more or less (adverb): true for practical purposes, if &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-expressions-more-or-less\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: expressions: more or less<\/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-36963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963","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=36963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36968,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963\/revisions\/36968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}