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

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月

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

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(五)月

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

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

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(63) / 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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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(93) / 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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(244) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Everyday Grammar: Can I, Could I, May I? For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week we will give you some tips on how to use modals to make requests and give permission. Some common modals for expressing permission are may, can, an

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Everyday Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives Welcome to another episode of Everyday Grammar on VOA Learning English. English learners have difficulty with gerunds and infinitives. A gerund is the ing form of a verb that functions the same as a noun. For

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(四)月

May, Might, Must - Modals of Certainty For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. This week's Everyday Grammar looks at how to use the modals may, must and might. Modal verbs (called modals for short) are auxiliary verbs that express a speak

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(六)月

AS IT IS 2016-04-07 Do You Speak English Better than US Candidates? This is Whats Trending Today. A new study suggests you might be a better English speaker than the candidates running for president of the United States. Carnegie Mellon University in

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(四)月

2012考研英语长难句 7、Chomsky's grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it, whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular ty

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

英语写作中的选词和造句 众所周知,词汇(Vocabulary)是构成语言的最小单位。因此,要想写出一篇好的文章,首要的一点就是要尽可能多地熟悉和掌握英语词汇。一般来说,掌握的词汇越多,

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