{"id":22576,"date":"2026-06-21T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/phrase-interpretation-practice-on-the-contrary\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:14:50","slug":"phrase-interpretation-practice-on-the-contrary","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/phrase-interpretation-practice-on-the-contrary\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrase Interpretation Practice: On the contrary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What idea does <strong>On the contrary<\/strong> express?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>to break a promise or fail to keep one&#8217;s word<\/li>\n<li>not at all<\/li>\n<li>to think about the hopeful part of a situation<\/li>\n<li>the opposite is true<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3210],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-22576","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>On the contrary<\/strong> means <strong>the opposite is true<\/strong>. It is the correct answer because this expression is used figuratively to describe introducing a statement that disagrees with an earlier idea.<\/p><p>Examples:<\/p><ul><li>The test was not easy; <strong>on the contrary<\/strong>, it was very hard.<\/li><li>He is not lazy; <strong>on the contrary<\/strong>, he works daily.<\/li><li>The room is not noisy; <strong>on the contrary<\/strong>, it is silent.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"to break a promise or fail to keep one's word"},{"right":"no","answer":"not at all"},{"right":"no","answer":"to think about the hopeful part of a situation"},{"right":"yes","answer":"the opposite is true"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}