2017-03-03 ‘Providing’ More Assistance With Prepositions
English learners know that prepositions can be difficult to master. There are 94 one-word prepositions in English, and about 56…
2017-02-24 Disagreements in Everyday Conversation, Part Two
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting in the United States. The…
2017-02-17 Disagreements in Everyday Conversation
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine that you are walking down the street in an American city.…
2017-02-10 Common Adverbs in Conversation: Amplifiers, Downtoners
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting. You have just presented a…
2017-02-03 Adverb and Adjective Choices in Conversation
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine two American students are talking outside of their school. Let’s listen…
2017-01-27 You Can Use the Simple Past Tense to Make Polite Offers
Imagine you are at a café in the United States. The server walks toward you and asks the following question:…
2017-01-20 Learn 10 Separable Phrasal Verbs
Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we return to a very common verb form in English…
2017-01-13 Can You Catch These Native Speaker Mistakes?
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week, we will learn a few English words and phrases that…
2017-01-06 Have You Been Using the Perfect Progressive?
Editor’s note: See An Introduction to Verb Tenses for the first story in this series. For VOA Learning English, this…
2016-12-30 Have You Met the Perfect Tenses?
Editor’s note: This is the third episode of four-part series on verb tenses. Be sure to listen to part one…
2016-12-23 Are You Learning the Progressive Tenses?
Editors note: This is the second of a four-part series on verb tenses. Click here to see part one. For…
2016-12-16 The Mystery of the Disappearing “That”
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today, we are going to explore a mysterious word in English that…
2016-12-09 Introducing English Verb Tenses
Editors note: This is the first of a four-part series on verb tenses. Click here for part two. For VOA…
2016-12-02 Getting to Know the Verb ‘Get’
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. So, Alice, what did you do last night? Well, I was at…
2016-11-25 What Can Thanksgiving Teach You About English Grammar?
Every year around the Thanksgiving holiday, a strange ceremony happens in Washington, DC. The president stands outside the White House,…