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To receive your regular dose of earth-shattering educational tips, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #EnglishGrammar<\/a> #EnglishSituationalWriting<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Common mistakes of the usage of word ‘revert’ in Situational Writing for primary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n For Situational Writing in Primary School Level English, students are sometimes required to write emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One mistake that frequently shows up in emails is the use of the word 'revert'.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is common to see sentences such as \"Please revert at your earliest convenience\" or \"I will revert to you as soon as possible\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the above examples, 'revert' is used to mean 'reply' or 'respond'.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, a quick check with our trusty dictionary tells us that the true meaning of the word 'revert' is 'to go back or return to (an earlier state, condition, situation, etc.)'.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are examples of correct usage of the word 'revert'.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) Amos reverted to his old ways after being released from prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) After 99 years, ownership of the HDB flat will revert to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click the 'share' button below if you found this post useful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n To receive your regular dose of earth-shattering educational tips, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n #EnglishGrammar<\/a> #EnglishSituationalWriting<\/a><\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-the-thinking-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227413"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232977,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227413\/revisions\/232977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.joyouslearning.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Situational](\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/d9e74e_95c14d0b5aec4678a0cc7a90e586f788~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_740,h_494,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/d9e74e_95c14d0b5aec4678a0cc7a90e586f788~mv2.jpg\")
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