From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine two American students are talking outside of their school. Lets listen to the imaginary conversation: A: Today is going slow. B: Yeah. I guess we should study for our grammar test. A: That...
Recently, our readers and listeners wrote many lovely messages about their birthdays. We have been reading all of them. Most messages are happy. You wrote about gifts you received, the people who celebrated with you, or where and how you celebrated....
Today, on Everyday Grammar, we will learn to describe our birthdays. When is your birthday? When people ask us the question When is your birthday? we can answer a few different ways. We can use the season (spring, summer, autumn/fall, or winter), the...
English has many patterns. Learning and mastering these patterns can help you improve your writing and speaking skills. They can also help you do better on your next grammar test! Today, we explore a common verb pattern: the transitive verb pattern....
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. English has many patterns. Basic grammatical patterns can explain the structure of around 95 percent of sentences in English, says Martha Kolln, a grammar expert. Learning and mastering these patte...
The Everyday Grammar team often receives questions about academic writing. Students around the world want to improve their academic writing so that they can gain admission and succeed in a college or a university. In this week's report, we are going...
The new school year is beginning in communities across the United States. Many students are busy at work in their new classes. Some are already thinking about all the homework they will face in the weeks to come. Schools often require students to rea...
From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. In a previous Everyday Grammar story, we discussed two common sentence patterns using the word be. This week, we are going to give you more information about another common pattern in English: the...
Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example. But sometimes studying the English sentence from a larger perspective is useful. One way to get a bigger view of English is to stud...
Imagine you are talking to an American. You are curious to know about what they did during the holidays of Christmas and New Years. How can you ask about these or other holidays? How can you build a discussion about the holiday season? In this Everyd...
