Last week, we looked at common phrasal verbs and gerunds linked to exercising and health. For this week's Everyday Grammar report, we will continue to explore exercise vocabulary. We will learn different prepositions, verbs, and nouns we can use when...
Grammar for Exercise Do you like to work out? What do you do to warm up for exercise? Do you enjoying walking, dancing, or running? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will look at how we can express ways we exercise. You will learn about common phrasal...
How to Talk about Music Imagine that you hear music on the radio or on your phone. Maybe you like the sounds; maybe you do not. But how should you describe the music? What kinds of terms and structures should you use in a discussion? In today's Every...
Making Abbreviations: Acronyms, Initialisms Have you ever seen, heard, or used these words before? LOL. Scuba ASAP If you have, you know they are shortenings of longer expressions called abbreviations. So how can we make abbreviations? In this week's...
Grammar and Gossip Imagine a time when you heard information about the personal life or behavior of another person a friend, a neighbor, a classmate, or even a famous person. In other words, you heard gossip. What kinds of terms and structures do Eng...
Unbeknownst and Til in a Taylor Swift Song Two popular singers, Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, came out with a song together called Snow on the Beach. The song is about two people falling in love with each other at the same time, which is uncommon li...
Phrasal Verbs with Fall Autumn the season when temperatures drop and leaves change color is also known as fall. Fall in the United States is a lively time. Seasonal vegetables such as pumpkins and squash appear on farms, in stores, and in popular dis...
How to Express Condolences Recently, my mother, Ellen died. She lived a very good life. She raised three daughters. She loved art, writing, and travel. I miss my mom. So, for this week's Everyday Grammar, I want to share how we can express sympathies...
Use Possessive Pronouns to Talk about Friends, Family Imagine that you want to talk about your family or your friends. Perhaps you want to describe your parents or classmates. What kinds of structures should you use? In today's report, we will explor...
Reviewing Your Favorite Character Description Last week, we asked our readers and listeners to write about their favorite character from a book they had read. One reader, Arunabh wrote to us about their favorite character, Matilda, from the children'...
How to Wish Other People Well Imagine you are talking with a friend. Your friend tells you that they have a big test or job interview coming up soon. This is a good time to wish them well. But how do you do so? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will ex...
In a past report of Everyday Grammar, we talked about how to describe your favorite character from a book you had read. We looked at the children's book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien to help us describe my favorite character,...
Describing Your Favorite Character Think about a time you talked about a favorite character in a book you had read. Maybe you spoke about the character in a literature class at school. Or, perhaps, you discussed the character with a friend or in a bo...
Grammar and Attention News reports and everyday discussions increasingly involve the term attention, as in the attention economy - the idea that human attention is a limited resource. If you wanted to talk about attention, how would you do so? What t...
Reviewing Your Birthday Message Recently, our readers and listeners wrote many lovely messages about their birthdays. We have been reading all of them. Most messages are happy. You wrote about gifts you received, the people who celebrated with you, o...
