2020-02-28 What Are You Excited About Learning?
Hi everyone! Today, let’s start the program with a question: What is your city famous for making? I’ll tell you my answer. New York is famous for making great pizza.…
2020-02-21 Is Grammar Cool?
In the American film Pulp Fiction, actor Samuel L. Jackson challenges two criminals. They are trying to take money from all of the people in a restaurant. Jackson plays the…
2020-02-14 A Common Form: Be + Adjective + Infinitive
On a recent Everyday Grammar program, we talked about the phrase “be willing to.” For example, you might say, “She was willing to travel during the rainy season.” The adjective…
2020-02-07 What are Intensifiers?
The Fast and the Furious films, a series of car-racing movies, often describe a product called NOS, short for nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is a fuel that racers use to…
2020-01-31 What Are You Willing to Do?
Hi everyone! Thanks for listening to Everyday Grammar. If you listen often and find the material easy to understand, you probably have been practicing English for a long time. That’s…
2020-01-24 This Is Casual Grammar, Dude
The Big Lebowski, a 1998 crime comedy, is an American ‘cult classic.’ In other words, the film has a group of very loyal fans. The Big Lebowski tells the story…
2020-01-17 The Difference: Used to, Be Used to, Get Used to
Hi everyone, how was your weekend? Mine was relaxing! Let me tell you about it. Listen for me to say the words “used to” three times. On Saturday, I got…
2020-01-10 Definitions, Nouns, and Politics
The United States will hold a presidential election in November of 2020. From now until then, you are likely to hear or read many reports about the things U.S. politicians…
2020-01-03 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 on January 1. This year, the Lunar New Year takes…
2019-12-20 Soccer and Grammar
In recent weeks, search terms related to European football have been popular on the internet. On Monday, for example, Google Trends identified ‘Champions League’ and ‘Champions League draw’ as the…
2019-12-13 Digital Communication: Emojis and Grammar
Writer and actor Larry David is behind some of America’s most popular television shows, including Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. The shows often discuss the details of everyday life in…
2019-12-06 Do These Things to Improve Your Collocations
If you have been studying English even for a short time, chances are you have already heard or read hundreds of collocations. A collocation is a group of two or…
2019-11-22 Text Messages and Internet Forums
Today on Everyday Grammar, we will explore two relatively new methods of communicating: text messages and internet forums. We will talk about two common expressions you might see: lol* and…
2019-11-15 Cleft Sentences in Speaking, Writing
This is Everyday Grammar. Today, I want to begin by asking you to listen to two sentences and compare their meanings. Are the meanings the same or different? Here are…
2019-11-08 Appositives: Renaming Words and Other Terms
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…