{"id":329,"date":"2008-06-02T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T04:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2012-09-01T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T14:02:41","slug":"to-complement-a-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/06\/to-complement-a-compliment\/","title":{"rendered":"To complement a compliment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that compliment is not the same as complement? They actually have quite different meanings so using the wrong word can make a reasonable sentence into nonsense!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>compliment<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; expression of praise, greeting, positive comments<br \/>\n<em>She complimented the floral arrangement on the table.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>complement<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; to complete or make a whole<br \/>\n<em>The new couch complements the room nicely.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can you see how comp<strong>le<\/strong>te comp<strong>le<\/strong>mentary things are as a reminder for which spelling to use?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/writing-tips-ebook\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Word Constructions eBook to help you write better and more effectively\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/images\/bannerimages\/writingtips_banner1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that compliment is not the same as complement? They actually have quite different meanings so using the wrong word can make a reasonable sentence into nonsense! compliment &#8211; expression of praise, greeting, positive comments She complimented the floral arrangement on the table. complement &#8211; to complete or make a whole The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[277,276,278,273,226,201],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-complement","tag-compliment","tag-definitions","tag-meanings","tag-tips","tag-words"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}