{"id":39625,"date":"2020-07-04T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T20:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39625"},"modified":"2020-07-04T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T20:55:42","slug":"english-eventual-vs-conceptual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-eventual-vs-conceptual\/","title":{"rendered":"English: eventual vs conceptual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about the actual meaning of a word: the tutor mentions <em>eventual<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>eventual<\/strong>: when the concept becomes an <strong>event<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nExample: Right now, here, it&#8217;s 13:43 &#8211; broad daylight. The sun (we assume) <em>will<\/em> set later today, possibly around 21:30.<\/p>\n<p>Here, right now, the sun&#8217;s setting is merely a concept: I can&#8217;t show it to anyone. To become real, it needs to happen &#8211; to become an <em>event<\/em>. Hence, <em>eventual<\/em> might mean not just in the future, but perhaps more particularly, <em>when the idea becomes an event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick (editor). <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n   \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about the actual meaning of a word: the tutor mentions eventual. eventual: when the concept becomes an event. Example: Right now, here, it&#8217;s 13:43 &#8211; broad daylight. The sun (we assume) will set later today, possibly around 21:30. Here, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-eventual-vs-conceptual\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: eventual vs conceptual<\/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":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39625","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=39625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39631,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39625\/revisions\/39631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}