{"id":755,"date":"2017-11-12T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obviouseditor.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2017-11-12T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:03:00","slug":"perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/755\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We won&#8217;t bother with the adjectival form of <span class=\"highlighter\">perfect<\/span>, it is everywhere. Let&#8217;s jump right to the verb.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quo\">UC Berkeley will conduct research to <span class=\"highlighter\">perfect<\/span> a microbial factory for the compound artemisinin, currently the most effective treatment for malaria. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/news\/media\/releases\/2004\/12\/13_gates.shtml\">UC Berkeley News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"prono\">Per-fect&#8217;.<\/span> <span class=\"itaprono\">(v)<\/span> <code>To improve or refine.<\/code><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quo\">Brendan Gleeson has told RT\u00c9 Entertainment that several takes were needed to <span class=\"highlighter\">perfect<\/span> scenes in Paddington 2, and admits it was challenging trying to &#8220;keep the energy up&#8221; during filming. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2017\/1111\/919256-brendan-gleeson\/\">RTE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the verb is almost always in its infinitive form: &#8216;<span class=\"highlighter\">to perfect<\/span>&#8216; something or other. Perhaps it appears otherwise, but we stopped looking.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quo\">Zhang, 25, has been working to <span class=\"highlighter\">perfect<\/span> her English for several years and now speaks the language with little difficulty. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/english\/doc\/2004-08\/21\/content_367593.htm\">China Daily<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We won&#8217;t bother with the adjectival form of perfect, it is everywhere. Let&#8217;s jump right to the verb. UC Berkeley will conduct research to perfect a microbial factory for the compound artemisinin, currently the most effective treatment for malaria. &#8211; UC Berkeley News Per-fect&#8217;. (v) To improve or refine. Brendan Gleeson has told RT\u00c9 Entertainment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/755\/\" class=\"more-link\">See entire post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perfect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,5],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}