{"id":59,"date":"2013-01-12T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-01-24T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:20:26","slug":"phrasal-verb-of-the-day-5-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: mix up"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>mix <\/strong><i>something <\/i><strong>up<br \/>\n<\/strong>Transitive\/Intransitive, Separable<b><br \/>\n<\/b><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> confuse two or more things<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> I always <strong>mix up<\/strong> the twins.\u00a0 They are too similar!<\/p>\n<p>Many people often <strong>mix up<\/strong> the following words in English.\u00a0 Be careful to understand the different meanings!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affect \/ Effect: <\/strong><em>\u201cAffect\u201d<\/em> is a verb meaning to impact or influence, and <em>\u201ceffect\u201d<\/em> is a noun.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>To affect is to produce an effect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farther \/ Further: <\/strong>\u201c<em>Farther<\/em>\u201d is the comparative form of \u201cfar\u201d referring to physical distance (ex. How much <em>farther<\/em> do we have to travel to get to your house?).\u00a0 <em>\u201cFurther\u201d<\/em> refers to metaphorical or figurative distance (ex. Can we discuss this <em>further<\/em> tomorrow?).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fewer \/ Less:<\/strong><em> Fewer<\/em> is used for countable nouns and<em> less<\/em> is used for uncountable nouns.\u00a0 (ex. There are <em>fewer<\/em> students in this class than in my last class.\u00a0 There is <em>less<\/em> water in my glass than in your glass.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its \/ It\u2019s: <\/strong><em>\u201cIts\u201d<\/em> refers to possession (ex. The bird spread <em>its<\/em> wings).\u00a0 <em>\u201cIt\u2019s\u201d<\/em> is a contraction meaning \u201c<em>it is.<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mix something up Transitive\/Intransitive, Separable Meaning: confuse two or more things Example: I always mix up the twins.\u00a0 They are too similar! Many people often mix up the following words in English.\u00a0 Be careful to understand the different meanings! Affect &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=59\">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-59","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\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}