{"id":378,"date":"2008-10-27T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T00:15:06","slug":"bought-or-brought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/bought-or-brought\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought or brought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In speech it isn&#8217;t always clear whether someone says brought or bought, but I really hate seeing them written in the wrong context so here are definitions to help people get them right&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">bought:<\/span> to have purchased something. It is the past tense of the word <a title=\"define buy and bye\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/07\/bye-buying\/\" target=\"_blank\">buy<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>They bought their car from a registered dealer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">brought:<\/span> to have carried or taken something\/someone with you. It is the past tense of the word\u00a0bring.<br \/>\n<em>She brought a friend with her to the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After you <strong>br<\/strong>ing something you&#8217;ve <strong>br<\/strong>ought it&#8217; is a handy reminder of which is which as many people get confused over these two words.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not confident you are getting words like bought and brought in the correct places, get a second opinion before you make your writing public. Ask a friend to read your work for you (not just to catch a brought\/bought error) or <a title=\"Why use a professional writer?\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/why-use-a-professional-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>get a professional to edit your work for you<\/strong><\/a>, especially if it is something important like your website content or product manual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/writing-tips-ebook\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Writing well eBook from Word Constructions\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/images\/bannerimages\/writingtips_banner1.gif\" alt=\"Learn more writing tips from the Writing Well eBook\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In speech it isn&#8217;t always clear whether someone says brought or bought, but I really hate seeing them written in the wrong context so here are definitions to help people get them right&#8230; bought: to have purchased something. It is the past tense of the word buy. They bought their car from a registered dealer [&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":[457,822,458,823,297,119],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-bought","tag-bring","tag-brought","tag-buy","tag-definition","tag-meaning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}