2017-03-31 Take a Break with Commas
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are taking a trip in a foreign country. You are driving a rental car that you got at the airport.…
2017-03-24 Infinitives in Everyday Speech
Imagine you are in an American city. While standing along the street, you hear someone asking for directions. “What’s the best way to get to the airport?” “Continue straight and…
2017-03-17 Imprecise Noun Phrases in Conversation
Imagine you hear a group of American teenagers talking. One teenager has received a gift, and his friends are a little jealous. Where did you get that new video game?…
2017-03-10 Commonly Used Nouns
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you hear a mother or father talking to a child. The parent wants the child to do well in school, but…
2017-03-03 ‘Providing’ More Assistance With Prepositions
English learners know that prepositions can be difficult to master. There are 94 one-word prepositions in English, and about 56 prepositions with two or more words, called “complex prepositions.” This…
2017-02-24 Disagreements in Everyday Conversation, Part Two
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting in the United States. The meeting is held one day after a major sporting event,…
2017-02-17 Disagreements in Everyday Conversation
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine that you are walking down the street in an American city. You might hear short conversations as you pass people. One…
2017-02-10 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 plan to your business partners. They want to give suggestions…
2017-02-03 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 to the imaginary conversation: A: Today is going slow. B:…
2017-01-27 You Can Use the Simple Past Tense to Make Polite Offers
Imagine you are at a café in the United States. The server walks toward you and asks the following question: Did you want cream for your coffee? You might ask…
2017-01-20 Learn 10 Separable Phrasal Verbs
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…
2017-01-13 Can You Catch These Native Speaker Mistakes?
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week, we will learn a few English words and phrases that are commonly misused in English. Even well-educated native English speakers…
2017-01-06 Have You Been Using the Perfect Progressive?
Editor’s note: See An Introduction to Verb Tenses for the first story in this series. For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This is the last in our four-part…
2016-12-30 Have You Met the Perfect Tenses?
Editor’s note: This is the third episode of four-part series on verb tenses. Be sure to listen to part one and part two first. For VOA Learning English, this is…
2016-12-23 Are You Learning the Progressive Tenses?
Editors note: This is the second of a four-part series on verb tenses. Click here to see part one. For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are…