{"id":226,"date":"2013-02-26T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2013-02-26T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:02:06","slug":"226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><b><\/b><strong>take off<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Intransitive<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> start to fly, depart<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> Oh no, I\u2019m going to be late.\u00a0 My plane <strong>takes off<\/strong> in thirty minutes!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0take<\/strong> <i>something <\/i><strong>off<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Transitive, Separable<br \/>\n<\/em><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><strong>\u00a0Meaning: <\/strong>remove something<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><strong>Example:<\/strong> It is polite to <strong>take off<\/strong> your shoes when you enter someone\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that in China and Japan it is normal for the host to provide slippers for their guests to put on after they <strong>take off<\/strong> their shoes?\u00a0 Additionally, when using a restroom, house slippers are <strong>taken off<\/strong> and a different pair, just for the restroom should be used.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Ethiopia, the Orthodox people don\u2019t wear their shoes when they enter a church to show respect to God.\u00a0 In a similar way, Muslim people also <strong>take off <\/strong>their shoes when they enter a Mosque.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, some people prefer to have guests <strong>take<\/strong> their shoes <strong>off<\/strong> when entering the house.\u00a0 It is always a good idea to ask your host, just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>take off Intransitive Meaning: start to fly, depart Example: Oh no, I\u2019m going to be late.\u00a0 My plane takes off in thirty minutes! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0take something off \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Transitive, Separable \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}