本单元是关于母女聊天的对话 Michal: Helen, this place is enormous! Helen: It's just a house, don't get so overexcited by it. And promise me you won't treat me differently after this visit. Mum: Hello! Just drop your bags anywhere dears. Michal, wil

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 公寓伙伴

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is dashes. Last week when I was speaking at the Field's End Writers Conference on Bainbridge Island, someone in the audience asked about dashes. When should she use a dash and how is it different from a colon? Dashes

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. That sure was a mouthful, and it illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is hyphens. On Monday afternoon Pat was watching the cable channel CNBC and called me over to the TV because the hosts were talking about hyphens. Yup, in the middle of a segment on the economy, they started talking a

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl