2019-10-04 The Progressive: Activities and Places
Imagine you want to talk about what someone is doing. Perhaps you want to add information about where that action…
2019-09-27 Verbs of Perception
Imagine that you want to describe an experience. You want to talk about how you perceived something – in other…
2019-09-13 Verbs That Change with Gerunds and Infinitives
In English, we sometimes follow a verb with another action. When we do this, we must use an infinitive or…
2019-08-16 Six Everyday Phrases for Making Guesses
Sometimes, we are asked to give an answer or opinion about something when we don’t have enough information or are…
2019-08-09 ‘Social’ Verbs and Prepositions
Talking, laughing, joking – these are some of the actions we do while we are with friends and family. In…
2019-08-02 Did You ‘Ask About’ Verbs and Prepositions?
Ice Cube is a famous rap music artist. The Lumineers are a famous folk rock group. While The Lumineers and…
2019-07-26 Using Past Forms to Describe Present, Future
Imagine that your cousin wants to ask his longtime girlfriend to marry him. And he needs you to help him…
2019-07-19 Phrasal Verbs: Come Back, Come Up
Braveheart was released over 20 years ago, yet is still popular among American movie-lovers today. The 1995 film tells the…
2019-07-12 The More I Practice, the More I Remember
Hello. Today we will start with a question for you: When you practice English more, do you remember more? If…
2019-07-05 Common Phrasal Verbs with ‘Go’
In the early 1970’s, Motown Records released the Marvin Gaye song “What’s Going On.” The song asks for a peaceful…
2019-06-28 How to Replace That-Clauses with ‘So’
As a general rule, the English language aims to avoid repetition. That’s why, on Everyday Grammar, we talk about ways…
2019-06-14 Three Common Forms in Everyday Speech
Have you ever had someone “repair” a home appliance but it kept breaking? I have been having trouble with my…
2019-06-07 Present Progressive Tense and Showing Annoyance
Samantha Fish is an American songwriter and blues singer. In her song Somebody’s Always Trying, she complains about other, unnamed…
2019-05-31 Too and Either: Short Responses of Agreement
In English conversation, when we respond to a speaker, we often do not repeat all of their words. Instead, we…
2019-05-24 The ‘By-phrase’ and the Passive Voice
In a famous scene in the American film Clerks, two of the characters have a disagreement. They debate which “Star…