2016-09-16 Adventures with Adverbials: Part 1
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. The 1954 American film On the Waterfront helped make actor Marlon Brando…
2016-09-09 Common Sentence Patterns: Part 4
English has many patterns. Learning and mastering these patterns can help you improve your writing and speaking skills. They can…
2016-09-02 Common Sentence Patterns: Part 3
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. English has many patterns. Basic grammatical patterns can explain the structure of…
2016-08-26 Which Pronoun is Correct: I or Me?
On March 5, Jazmine Hughes wrote in a New York Times blog, “Recently, at an IRL party — that is,…
2016-08-19 It Sounds Like…Onomatopoeia!
The world is full of different sounds. Some sounds are pleasing to hear, like a bird’s voice. Other sounds hurt…
2016-08-12 Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing: Part 2
In a previous Everyday Grammar story, we discussed two common sentence patterns using the word “be.” This week, we are…
2016-07-08 The Power of Parallelism
Parallelism is the repetition of similar grammatical forms. It is a powerful tool in public speaking and writing. You may…
2016-08-05 Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing: Part One
Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example.…
2016-07-29 Grab Onto Phrasal Verbs
Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we look at a very common verb form in English…
2016-07-22 You Want to Learn About Tag Questions, Don’t You?
Have you ever been in a conversation and wanted to check your understanding? That is the time to use a…
2016-07-15 The Sounds of Grammar with Betty Azar
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we have a special guest host. Betty Azar is the most…
2016-07-01 Could Have, Would Have, and Should Have
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we will take a look at the modal verbs could have,…
2016-06-17 May, Might, Must – Modals of Certainty
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week’s Everyday Grammar looks at how to use the modals may,…
2016-06-03 You Really Should Learn Modals!
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week we are going to show you how to give advice…