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…
2016-12-16 The Mystery of the Disappearing “That”
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today, we are going to explore a mysterious word in English that seems to appear and disappear at will! If you are…
2016-12-09 Introducing English Verb Tenses
Editors note: This is the first of a four-part series on verb tenses. Click here for part two. For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going…
2016-12-02 Getting to Know the Verb ‘Get’
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. So, Alice, what did you do last night? Well, I was at home, getting ready to go to the movies. I was…
2016-11-25 What Can Thanksgiving Teach You About English Grammar?
Every year around the Thanksgiving holiday, a strange ceremony happens in Washington, DC. The president stands outside the White House, gives a brief speech and then officially pardons a turkey.…
2016-11-18 Understanding Adverbs: Always
The film “Casablanca“ is one of the most famous American movies of all time. At the end of the film, the actor Humphrey Bogart says a heartbreaking farewell to the…
2016-11-10 Are you in the Mood to Learn the Subjunctive?
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today, we’re going to talk about using the subjunctive. English speakers use the subjunctive to express a wide variety of unreal or…