2021-11-18 BTS Teaches You About Similes, Prepositions
The music group BTS, originally from South Korea, has developed a large international following. It recently won many awards at the MTV European Music Awards, including Best Pop, Best K-Pop…
2021-11-11 Adele Teaches You English Grammar
Easy On Me, by British singer and songwriter Adele, has been at the top of Billboard’s The Hot 100 and Global 200 lists this week. In today’s Everyday Grammar, we…
2021-11-04 Modifiers in Science Writing
Imagine you are learning about a science. Perhaps you want to read a science book, science news, or scientific research in English. There are certain structures that are common to…
2021-10-29 Grammar and Scary Movies
Halloween is this weekend. A holiday with ancient beginnings, the yearly celebration now looks much different than it did in the distant past. For example, many Americans now celebrate the…
2021-10-22 Nouns and Pronouns in Popular Music
Stay, a song by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, has recently been at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the United States. I do the same…
2021-10-15 Describing Your Day: The Evening
Near the end of The Remains of the Day, a famous book by Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the characters says the following words: “The evening’s* the best part of the…
2021-10-08 Describing Your Day: Midday Activities
Imagine you want to describe your day. Perhaps you have an English test that asks about what you do regularly. Or maybe you just want to tell a friend about…
2021-10-01 Phrases, Adjectives, Determiners to Describe Autumn
North America is now in the fall season – a time of cooler temperatures, colorful leaves, and seasonal treats. Fall is a season we describe in terms of colors and…
2021-09-24 Describing Your Day: Mornings
Imagine you are discussing your day. Perhaps you want to describe your morning – what you did, how you felt, and so on. Morning is a time of action. You…
2021-09-17 Bad Habits, Adjectives and the Simple Present
Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits has been one of the most popular songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and Spotify’s Top Hits. Every time you come around, you know I can’t…
2021-09-10 September 11th, Memories, Verb Forms
Saturday, September 11, is the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States. Around 3000 people were killed on that day in 2001, when al-Qaida agents hijacked and…
2021-09-03 Phrasal Verbs, Problem Solving and Grammar
This report represents the 300th Everyday Grammar program. In celebration of the event, we will explore common phrasal verbs that have to do with the development of Everyday Grammar reports.…
2021-08-27 When to Use ‘Some’ and Not ‘A’ or ‘An’
On this program, you have learned about count and noncount nouns. (If you need to review that point, please see our article, Understanding Noncount Nouns.) Count nouns and some We…
2021-08-20 Shortened Statements with the Word ‘To’
Imagine you hear Americans discussing plans, activities or events. You will likely hear statements such as “I would like to,” “I want to,” or “I’ll try to.” We will explore…
2021-08-13 How to Split Infinitives
Your English teacher may have told you, “Do not split infinitives.” But if you have been reading Everyday Grammar for the past few years, you already know that we no…