{"id":7858,"date":"2019-08-15T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/eating-and-drinking-is-not-allowed\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:25:14","slug":"eating-and-drinking-is-not-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/eating-and-drinking-is-not-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating and drinking is not allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7855&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">\u2018Eating and drinking is not allowed\u2019<\/span> \u2013 This expression can regularly be seen or heard by anyone riding Bangkok\u2019s various forms of public transportation. The statement aims to notify passengers that they should refrain from either activity while onboard. Some English language students may wonder why the conjugated verb form of \u2018are\u2019 is not applied here in a sentence with two subjects in gerund form: \u2018eating\u2019 and \u2018drinking.\u2019 This exception also frequently appears on English exams.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the sentence \u2018Eating and drinking are not allowed\u2019 also looks grammatically fine. The only slight difference is that the use of \u2018is\u2019 conveys the notion of both actions as a single idea, while the version using \u2018are\u2019 signifies that the actions are separated. In the case of the sentence with \u2018is\u2019, both nouns or noun phrases are recognized as a pair of things, activities, or subjects that usually come together.<\/p>\n<p>For English language beginners, it is suggested not to attempt creating new sentences with this pattern too soon. Observing how others use this first is the best way to avoid mistakes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Eating and drinking is not allowed\u2019 \u2013 This expression can regularly be seen or heard by anyone riding Bangkok\u2019s various forms of public transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7861,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions\/7861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}