Everyday Grammar (日常语法)

2023-11-02 Grammar and Optimism

How do we talk about events or actions that make us happy or hopeful about the present and future? In…

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2023-10-26 Grammar and Halloween

An interesting holiday in the United States is coming up soon. Halloween happens on the last day of October. If…

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2023-10-19 Grammar and Disagreements

Consider almost any social or political issue. It could be local or international. Some people have one idea about the…

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2023-10-12 The Language of International Conflicts

The war between Israel and Hamas has drawn a lot of international attention this week. News reports, videos, and social…

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2023-10-05 Grammar and Uncertainty

Consider an unusual time in your life. Perhaps your country was having a financial crisis or a political crisis. Perhaps…

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2023-09-28 Discussing Alien Life

Over the last several months, there have been many news reports about possible alien life and strange objects in the skies, sometimes…

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2023-09-21 Offering Coffee and Tea

Consider a time you asked someone to drink tea, coffee, or soda. What kinds of terms and structures did you…

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2023-09-14 Three Phrasal Verbs with ‘Along’

Sometimes, the Learning English program Ask A Teacher receives questions from learners that we are not able to answer on that program.…

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2023-09-07 Discussing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the subject of many news reports this year. It has also been part of many…

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2023-08-31 More Tenses in ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’

In today’s Everyday Grammar, we finish our discussion of Fallout Boy’s remake of the song We Didn’t Start the Fire, which was written…

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