Grammar and the Economy: Inflation Inflation worries people around the world Argentina, Egypt, the United States, and many other places. But how do English speakers discuss inflation in everyday situations? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explor...
Memories, Mothers Day and Grammar Think back to one of your favorite memories. What do you remember? Is it a time that you think about often? In this week's Everyday Grammar, we will share ways to talk about your memories, including verbal tenses and...
Grammar and Trees Comparisons are a useful tool for learning new information. They help us make connections and increase our enjoyment of learning. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we will use a comparison to teach you some important ideas about Engl...
Grammar and Cars Imagine you are in a car. Perhaps another person is driving. What kinds of sentences are you likely to hear or use? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will show you how cars can teach you about English grammar. You will learn about comm...
Pronouncing Years in American English Have you ever wondered how to read years in English? In today's Everyday Grammar, we take a closer look at some ways to pronounce years in American English. The most common and easiest way to pronounce years is t...
Puns and The Last of Us The popular television series, The Last of Us, is based on a video game series with the same name. In it, teenager Ellie and middle-aged man Joel are survivors of a disastrous pandemic. They travel together across an extremely...
Where Do You Live? Part 2 Imagine a teacher says the following to you during an English speaking test: Tell me about where you live. Can you describe your living space? Today's report will explore ways to answer such a question. We will talk about no...
Reviewing Your Poetry In the past few weeks, we asked readers and listeners to write structured poems using either parts of speech or syllables. Many of you wrote in with cinquains, haiku, and diamond poems. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we will r...
Poetry and Syllables Last week, we looked at two kinds of poems, the cinquain and the diamante or diamond poem. We explored parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with poems. Many of you wrote to us and shared your poems. In today's Ev...
Parts of Speech and Poetry Have you ever written a poem in English? Some of you have written to us in recent weeks asking us about writing and sharing poems. When I was a teacher at a university, I taught my ESL students creative writing. We spent ti...
Grammar and Money Imagine that you want to talk about money or personal finance. What kinds of terms and structures should you use? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore how discussions about money connect with grammar. You will learn about im...
Where Do You Live? Imagine a person asking you about where you live. How do you respond? How do you give details or more information? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore ways to talk about where you live. You will learn about questions, answ...
Happily Ever After: Settings, Actions, and Lessons in Fairy Tales Recently, we discussed traditional stories called fairy tales. These stories are passed down through the generations. We learned that these tales take place at an inexact time in the p...
Using Definite Articles before Comparative Adjectives After the winter holidays, some of us may feel the need to exercise and get healthy. We may have been eating richer foods than usual at meals shared with friends and families. During the winter mo...
Talking about Art, Part 2 After releasing our recent report, Talking about Art, we received many wonderful messages from VOA Learning English fans around the world. In today's report, we will share some of those messages. We'll provide feedback and s...
