2024-04-04 Writing Feedback: What Is Your National Dish
In today’s Everyday Grammar, we will take a delicious trip to East Asia. We will taste wonderful and perhaps unfamiliar foods – if only in our imagination. We will also…
2024-03-28 Symbols of Easter
Spring has begun in the northern half of the Earth. For Christians, a major springtime holiday is Easter. This year, Easter falls on March 31. In this week’s Everyday Grammar,…
2024-03-21 Talking about Your Dreams
In an earlier Everyday Grammar, we talked about “Fast Car,” a song about young people who had dreams of making their lives better. Then, we asked our readers and listeners…
2024-03-14 What Is Your Country’s National Dish?
Consider a time when you sat down to share a dish with family or friends. What was the dish? Is the dish special in your country or area? In today’s…
2024-03-07 Learn Indefinite Pronouns with ‘Fast Car’
On today’s Everyday Grammar, we are going to look at things that are different from each other: in other words, contrasts. Let’s start: At the 2024 Grammy awards, one performance…
2024-02-29 Breaking the Rules with Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’
Every year, the Recording Academy in the United States gives awards to the performers and songwriters with the most outstanding achievements from the year before. The Academy calls those awards…
2024-02-22 What Is Popular in Different Countries?
In a recent lesson, we asked our readers and listeners to write to us about what is popular in their country. In today’s lesson, we will explore some of what…
2024-02-15 What Is Popular in Your Country?
Think about something that your friends or people you know like. Can you bring an image to your mind? The image that you are thinking of can serve as a…
2024-02-08 Ways to Say ‘Goodbye’
It is never easy to say goodbye, but at least in English, we have many ways to do so. For my final Everyday Grammar, I want to share the many…
2024-02-01 A Trip Around the World
Pack your bags, make sure your travel documents are in order. Today we are taking a trip around the world — if only in our imagination. For this Everyday Grammar…
2024-01-25 Population, Overpopulation, Underpopulation
Imagine you want to talk about the people in your country or in the world. In other words, you want to talk about a population. How might you do so?…
2024-01-18 Language and Mental Health
In recent years, more and more people have been talking about mental health. The pandemic made many people feel isolated or alone. The isolation caused some people to struggle more…
2024-01-11 The Grammar of ‘Share:’ Social, Economic Uses
Consider a time when you heard or read news about business, investments, or politics. Now consider a happy time when you gathered with friends or family. You ate food, had…
2024-01-04 Personification, Adjectives in ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’
Many Americans have returned to work or school as the holiday season comes to an end. Some traveled far to be with loved ones for Christmas and New Year’s Day.…
2023-12-28 Grammar and New Year’s Resolutions
The New Year comes on different dates for different cultures. And most of the Western world celebrates it on January 1st. One thing many cultures have in common is the…