2015-12-04 30 Phrasal Verbs to Help You With Technology
Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. This is our third episode on phrasal verbs. As you know, a phrasal verb is a phrase with two or more…
2015-11-27 Time and Place Prepositions: In, On, and At
When English speakers talk about time and place, there are three little words that often come up: in, on, and at. These common words are prepositions that show a relationship…
2015-11-20 Six Differences Between British and American English
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. There is an old saying that America and Britain are “two nations divided by a common language.” No one knows exactly who…
2015-11-13 3 Grammar Rules That Are Dying
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we have good news for English learners. Just as words come and go in English, so do grammar rules. Today we…
2015-11-07 Our Top 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…
2015-10-31 Make Your Writing Smoother with Transitions
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about important transition words in English. We will focus on how to use transition words to…
2015-10-24 Pow! Whizz! What Are Onomatopoeia?
The world is full of different sounds. Some sounds are pleasing to hear, like a bird’s voice. Other sounds hurt your ears, like a loud machine. But how do we…
2015-10-17 Introducing Phrasal Verbs
Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we look at a very common verb form in English – phrasal verbs. There are over 5,000 verbs that fall…
2015-10-10 When Nouns Act Like Adjectives
Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. The English language has an interesting way of classifying words. We organize words by their function or purpose. These functions are…
2015-10-03 Comparatives and Superlatives
Adjectives describe and add information about the people or things we see every day. Sometimes, though, we want to know how two things compare to one another. Let’s start with…
2015-09-26 Do/Does You Understand Subject-Verb Agreement?
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week we are going to talk about problems with subject-verb agreement. Basically, subjects and verbs must agree in number. If the…
2015-09-19 Unusual Plurals
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, goes the Dr. Seuss children’s story. Why isn’t it two fishes? You may think, “Ok, it’s hard to count fish so we…
2015-09-11 Tag Questions Are Easy, Aren’t They?
Have you ever been in a conversation and wanted to check your understanding? That is the time to use a tag question in English. A tag question is a short…
2015-09-05 Three Reasons to Learn Relative Adverbs
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. In an earlier program, we talked about the relative pronouns who, that, and which. We promised to give you more details about…
2015-08-29 Fun with Future Tenses
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week, we are going to talk about the future tenses. There are several ways to talk about future events in English.…