Category: Everyday Grammar (日常语法)

When English speakers talk about time and place, there are three little words that often come up: in, on, and at. These common words are prepositions that show a relationship…

An interesting holiday in the United States is coming up soon. Halloween happens on the last day of October. If you have lived in the U.S., you have probably noticed…

Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we return to a very common verb form in English – phrasal verbs. You will find one phrasal verb in…

Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we look at a very common verb form in English – phrasal verbs. There are over 5,000 verbs that fall…

For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about different ways of expressing quantity in English. A quantifier is a word or number that…

Imagine you want to improve your writing skills. Perhaps you would like to take an English test or use English in a business email. Today on Everyday Grammar, we will…

Imagine you are watching an old American movie — the crime film “Dirty Harry.” You have heard that one part of the film is very famous in American culture. You…

For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week we are going to show you how to give advice using modal verbs. Modal verbs (called modals for short) are…

Nobel prize winner Bob Dylan is considered to be one of the best American songwriters. The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the…

In this week’s episode of Everyday Grammar, we are going to talk about conditionals. We use conditionals to show that something is true only when something else is true. Conditionals…

The battle for the White House is set as Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepts the Democratic Party nomination on Thursday to run against former President Donald Trump, the Republican…

For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week, we’re going to talk about some common problems with adverbs. Basically, adverbs are words that describe verbs, adjectives, and other…

Adjectives describe and add information about the people or things we see every day. Sometimes, though, we want to know how two things compare to one another. Let’s start with…

In a recent Everyday Grammar lesson, we explored some language used to talk about the Olympic Games – the words host, compete, and expect. We invited listeners to answer our…

This week on Everyday Grammar, we answer a question from Kyosuke, a loyal reader in Japan, who asks: I have a question about the article “When Colleges Close, Some Students…