2017-03-31 Take a Break with Commas
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are taking a trip in a foreign country. You are…
2017-03-24 Infinitives in Everyday Speech
Imagine you are in an American city. While standing along the street, you hear someone asking for directions. “What’s the…
2017-03-17 Imprecise Noun Phrases in Conversation
Imagine you hear a group of American teenagers talking. One teenager has received a gift, and his friends are a…
2017-03-10 Commonly Used Nouns
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you hear a mother or father talking to a child. The…
2017-03-03 ‘Providing’ More Assistance With Prepositions
English learners know that prepositions can be difficult to master. There are 94 one-word prepositions in English, and about 56…
2017-02-24 Disagreements in Everyday Conversation, Part Two
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting in the United States. The…
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.…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…