Lesson six Time Dialogue A Excuse me, Mam,what time is it ,please? Its 2:30 Thanks.what time is the next train? 2:45 I see.Is it on time? Yes,it is. Dialogue B Hi tom,what time is it,please? Its 6:45. Oh,no. Im late. Its ok. What do you mean? My watc

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From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Almost every American has seen or heard of the movie Forrest Gump. The film is a touching story about the life of a man who faces many challenges. One of the most famous quotes from Forrest Gump is

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Imagine you are in an American city. While standing along the street, you hear someone asking for directions. What's the best way to get to the airport? Continue straight and take the second right. It will only take about five minutes. Thanks! I'm ru

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Improve Your Writing with Contrast and Concession For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about words that connect opposing ideas. We call these ideas contrast or concession. Some of these adverbs are but, altho

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Everyday Grammar: Double Negatives - Cant Get None? 每日语法:双重否定 In this weeks episode of Everyday Grammar, were going to talk about two common types of double negatives. A double negative is when you use two negative words in the same c

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By Nancy Palus Dakar 31 March 2008 Union leaders in Guinea urged workers not to go on strike Monday, the day unions had set as a deadline for resolving disputes that sparked protests early this year. But while a strike has been averted for now, right

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AS IT IS 2015-12-23 Public Speaking, Grammar Lead Top Education Stories 公共演讲与英语语法 For English learners, the top education topics of the year are tips, tests and, of course, everyday grammar. In 2015, the VOA Learning English Educati

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by Michael W. Flynn Hello, and welcome to a special joint episode of Grammar Girls Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing and Legal Lads Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life. Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is illegal versus unlawful. Here's

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Cyclone Evan hit Samoa on Thursday evening with strong winds and heavy rain. Four people are dead and eight in fishing boats are missing. The captain of one fishing boat managed to swim to a nearby island and was found by a Royal New Zealand Air Forc

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sentence fragments. I often imagine that listeners are writing articles and essays and books, but I was recently reminded that some people make their living writing shorter things like headlines and ad copy, and th

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is bring versus take. Many listeners have asked me to talk about today's topic. Here's a caller: Hi Grammar Girl. It's Clint in Chester, VA. I have two children reaching high school age and they still don't know the d

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to treat URLs when you have to use them in text. Also, keep listening through to the end of the show because I have another writing contest for you. Web addresses are strange beasts; they seem more like equatio

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is single quotation marks versus double quotation marks. Cyndy left this message on the MyChingo line: Hey Grammar Girl. I would love for a future topic to be on the use of quotes versus, I don't know, the single quot

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Grammar Girl here. Surprise! You get a bonus show today because Thursday is National Punctuation Day and I'm going to have a slightly different kind of podcast to celebrate. Today's topic is semicolons. I get a lot of questions about semicolons, so i

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how a verb and an adverb messed up the inauguration. I took a break from work Tuesday to watch Barack Obama's inauguration, and like millions of other people, I saw a bit of confusion between Chief Justice John Rob

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is redundant acronyms. Some of you know that I'm a working writer. I've had some big deadlines over the last few weeks, so that's why there haven't been as many episodes out; but my work is always a huge inspiration f

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Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is helping us talk about two sets of words that listeners get confused: pleaded guilty or pled guilty, and use or utilize. Plead Versus Pled Mike from Georgia is transitioning from law enforcement t

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Grammar Girl here. Today I'm announcing the top five Grammar Girl pet peeves of 2008. About a month ago, I asked Grammar Girl listeners to submit their pet peeves for consideration for the peeves of 2008 list, and boy, do you have a lot of peeves! Wh

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, D.C. 20 July 2007 Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Guard says it remains ill-prepared to respond to a sudden disaster. Some lawmakers are calling for better plannin

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By Delia Robertson Polokwane 16 December 2007 South Africa's ruling African National Congress has opened a national conference that could decide who becomes the country's next president. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from the meeting in Polokwane, th

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