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Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. This time it's an educational site where you can find more than 200 ways to improve your English. The Purdue Online Writing Lab is a sizeable col
Many VOA Learning English stories and programs use the words sentence and statement. But what exactly does each word mean? Are there differences between the two? This week, our question comes from Armando. Here it is: Question: Whats the difference b
作为一种语言测试方式, 托福考试的重点是检测考生的英语语言水平,如何写出正确流畅的语言是得到托福写作单项高分的必备条件。那么如何才能得到阅读高分呢? 在TOEFL iBT Official Guide(托
陈豪在美国ABC公司工作。他经常要用电子邮件和公司内外的人联系。今天他见到了一个他不认识的英文词,所以就去请教美籍华人Mary。 (Office ambience) C: Hey, Mary,我知道etiquette这个词的意思是礼
Proofreading a Document Russell: Hey, LeeAnn, you were an English major, right? LeeAnn: Yes. Russell: Could you proofread this for me? LeeAnn: I don't know. Do you want me to proof it for content or for structure? Russell: For everything. LeeAnn: So
National Punctuation Day is a very important holiday for teachers and students of English. In fact, anyone who writes in English should celebrate this day. Few of us feel we are experts at the small marks that make up the English punctuation system.
Today, Julie Wildhaber, who trains writers and editors at Yahoo!, will explain what it means when people tell writers to find their voice, and also how to understand the difference between voice and tone in writing. What Is a Writing Voice? Voice is
Suppose you are at a birthday party. Everyone has a cell phone. Just as the group begins singing to the birthday girl, someones phone rings loudly and wont stop. You see the noisy phone on the table and ask: Whose phone is this? Someone answers: Its
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is text messaging. Karel (pronounced Carl) from Toronto, Canada, asked if I think text messaging is affecting how people write in formal situations. Well, I know it is for some people because Mia tells me so in this n
许多中国人花了很多时间在这个看到就头疼的英语上,只为了考试,成绩却常常一塌糊涂。如果只有外来的压力,学习效果就不会好到哪儿去。源自内心的动力是必需的。 Improving Your Motivatio
I'm Nancy Beardsley, filling in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster we'll talk about bad manners-and how they're reflected in what people are saying and not saying to one another these days. Our guest is British writer Lynne
Part 4. Short talks on listening skills. Listen to the short talk entitled Represent the ideas clear and cleanoutlining. Some important words are taken away from the written passage. Supply the missing words. Represent the ideas clear and clean outli
I'm Nancy Beardsley, filling in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster we'll talk about bad manners-and how they're reflected in what people are saying and not saying to one another these days. Our guest is British writer Lynne
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we answer some listener mail, starting with this question sent by e-mail from Siva Kumar in Madras, in Tamil Nadu, India. RS: Dear Avi and Rosanne, I would like to know the oppo
Today were going to talk about italics, that slanted type that you sometimes see amidst regular roman type. Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it'll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is
We're all familiar with the feeling that the emails we sent must have been sucked into some black hole because we never received a response. Sure, it's possible that your email went straight to spam, but the more likely scenario is either the recipie
comma 逗号 period 句号 quotation marks 引号 The Exclamation Mark 感叹号 Hash Key/Pound 井号 Star/asterisk 星号键 Today we gonna share more punctuation marks. 今天我们要分享一些标点符号。 Single quotation marks are used
陈豪在美国ABC公司工作.他经常要用电子邮件和公司内外的人联系.今天他见到了一个他不认识的英文词,所以就去请教美籍华人Mary. (Office ambience) C:Hey, Mary,我知道etiquette这个词的意思是礼节,礼貌
I'm Nancy Beardsley, filling in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster we'll talk about bad manners-and how they're reflected in what people are saying and not saying to one another these days. Our guest is British writer Lynne
Language Points 1.let sb. in on sth. 要告诉某人一个秘密或讯息(很少人知道的) I'll let you in on a little secret Sarah only got the job because she's dating the boss' brother. 我要告诉你一个小秘密,Sarah能得到那份工