Business and Word Choices: Nouns and Verbs Imagine you are a business owner. You hire employees and ask them to do the jobs they are best fitted for. One employee is skilled at dealing with people, so you have them interact with customers. Another em...
Describing Your Birthday Last week, my niece and I celebrated our birthdays together. We both turned 35 years old in the beginning of August. Her birthday is just a few days before mine. We celebrated by going to a lake and having lunch outside. I ha...
搜索 复制 Grammar and Clarity: Abstract Subjects Imagine you are giving a presentation or writing a letter. You have done your research and organized your main points. You have checked your grammar and vocabulary to make sure everything is correc...
搜索 复制 Making Polite Requests in Email, Part 2 In this week's Everyday Grammar report, we will continue telling about how to communicate politely in emails. Murat, a reader of our website, asked if we could talk about how to open and close our...
搜索 复制 What Are Elliptical Structures? There is an important part of grammar that is common in writing and everyday speech. But unlike many other subjects in grammar, this subject is defined by what is not expressed. What is this mysterious su...
搜索 复制 Making Polite Requests in Email Hello. In this week's Everyday Grammar report, we will talk about how to communicate politely in emails, especially when making requests. Samuel from China recently wrote to us asking about how to communi...
搜索 复制 How to Talk about a Movie Think about a time that you wanted to talk about a movie. How did you describe it? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will use a reader's message to explore how to talk about a movie. We will consider three questi...
搜索 复制 Most Useful Eating and Drinking Expressions Hello! This week on Everyday Grammar, we will share some common expressions for eating. This is the second part to a question we received from a Learning English fan in Myanmar. Thin Ya Thaw a...
搜索 复制 Sentence Length: Are Short Sentences Childish? Do English speakers consider short sentences to be childish? A reader sent us a message asking about that very question. In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore an area of connection b...
搜索 复制 Describing Your Favorite Book In a recent Everyday Grammar story, we asked our listeners and online fans to tell us about their favorite books. We received many wonderful messages from our audience around the world. Thanks to all for th...
搜索 复制 The Most Useful Weather Expressions Hello. This week on Everyday Grammar, we are talking about common expressions linked to weather. We got the idea for the show from an email sent by a Learning English fan in Myanmar. Thin Ya Thaw aske...
The Most Useful Weather Expressions Hello. This week on Everyday Grammar, we are talking about common expressions linked to weather. We got the idea for the show from an email sent by a Learning English fan in Myanmar. Thin Ya Thaw asked, Could you t...
搜索 复制 Learn to Pronounce Past Tense -ed with Taylor Swift The English alphabet has only 26 letters, but there are over 44 sounds! This can be a problem for English learners. Today on Everyday Grammar, we will learn about the past tense ending...
搜索 复制 But: a Small, Common, and Important Word The simple, three-letter word but might not sound or look special, interesting or beautiful. But this little word can be a powerful force in writing and in speaking. It can play an important part...
搜索 复制 Language Variation in the US Today on Everyday Grammar, we will explore some differences in American English spoken in different regions, or parts of the country. The United States is a large country, and there are areas where people us...
