2025-03-20 Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
Hi, everyone! You might be reading or listening to this Everyday Grammar program from your living room or bedroom. In…
2025-03-13 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…
2025-03-06 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…
2025-02-27 Reviewing Your Birthday Message
Recently, our readers and listeners wrote many lovely messages about their birthdays. We have been reading all of them. Most…
2025-02-20 Describing Your Birthday
Today, on Everyday Grammar, we will learn to describe our birthdays. When is your birthday? When people ask us the…
2025-02-13 Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Four
English has many patterns. Learning and mastering these patterns can help you improve your writing and speaking skills. They can…
2025-02-06 Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. English has many patterns. Basic grammatical patterns can explain the structure of…
2025-01-30 Academic Writing: Common Patterns, Part Two
The Everyday Grammar team often receives questions about academic writing. Students around the world want to improve their academic writing…
2025-01-23 Academic Writing: Common Patterns, Part One
The new school year is beginning in communities across the United States. Many students are busy at work in their…
2025-01-16 Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part Two
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. In a previous Everyday Grammar story, we discussed two common sentence patterns…
2025-01-09 Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example.…
2025-01-02 Questions, Answers about Holiday Activities
Imagine you are talking to an American. You are curious to know about what they did during the holidays of…
2024-12-26 Grammar for Making New Year’s Resolutions
The New Year can come on different dates for different cultures. Most of the Western world, for example, celebrates it…
2024-12-19 Grammar and Christmas
Many Americans experience surprise (or disappointment) when they wake up on Christmas Day. They might be surprised or disappointed by…
2024-12-12 Fun with Future Tenses
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week, we are going to talk about the future tenses. There…