{"id":38527,"date":"2019-12-03T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38527"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:35:42","slug":"english-homonyms-syntax-vs-sin-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-syntax-vs-sin-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"English: Homonyms: syntax vs sin tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor notices another pair of homonyms&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\nCalling <em>syntax<\/em> and <em>sin tax<\/em> homonyms might be a stretch, since <em>sin tax<\/em> is two words. People might hear them similarly, however.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>syntax:<\/strong> the rules of order and construction in a language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>sin tax:<\/strong> tax on items considered best not to consume. Alcohol, cigarettes, and even gasoline can be examples of goods whose price includes sin tax.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexico.com\/en\/definition\/sin_tax\">lexico.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary.<\/em> Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/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>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor notices another pair of homonyms&#8230; Calling syntax and sin tax homonyms might be a stretch, since sin tax is two words. People might hear them similarly, however. syntax: the rules of order and construction in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-syntax-vs-sin-tax\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: Homonyms: syntax vs sin tax<\/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-38527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527","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=38527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38530,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527\/revisions\/38530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}