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Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough,
本单元是关于在公寓的对话 Tim: Alice this is my cousin Michal - our new flatmate. He's really missing his friends. Alice: Oh, Michal let me take your mind off that...So, where are you from? Michal: From near Warsaw - the Polish capital. Alice: Oh, wh
12 不定冠词 a 的使用 cn.(countable nouns) VS un (uncountable nouns) 名词前用不定冠词,或定冠词,或都不用。一般而言,只有一个正确答案。A 用与不用,意思完全发生变化 Eg. She has long hair.(un.)
Statement Intonation with Pronouns When you replace the nouns with pronouns (i.e., old information), stress the verb. They eat them. As we have seen, nouns are new information; pronouns are old information. In a nutshell, these are the two basic into
Exercise 1-35: Contrast of Compound Nouns CD 2 Track3 In the following list of words, underline the element that should be stressed. Pause the CD.Afterwards, check Answer Key, begi nning on page 193. Repeat after me. 图片1 图片2
Review One.For this lesson,you'll need a piece of paper and a pencil. [00:-1.00]Repeat these numbers. [00:-2.00]thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety [00:-3.00]And now repeat these numbers. [00:-4.00]thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen sevente
Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough, b
Word Groups and Phrasing Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing By now you've begun developing a strong intonation, with clear peaks and reduced valleys, so you're ready for the next step. You may find yourself reading the paragraph in
Section 39 Languages Language is one of the major forms of communication between people. Speech and writing are the main components of a language. By introducing grammar into language, we make it easi
Grammar Girl here. Aliza in Alaska recently asked whether she should use who or that to refer to a board of directors. Today we're going to decide whether companies are people or things; in other words, whether you use the relative pronoun who or tha
Grammar Girl here. Today's show was shoved into our editorial schedule because of a grammar emergency. Steve Jobs said funnest on Tuesday in his keynote address about the new iPods, and people all over the Internet freaked out. It may just be my skew
Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is when plurals have no singular. A listener named Brent called in with this question: I have a question: how come pants, trousers, slacks, corduroys are all plurals even though there is only one of them? Guest writer
Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is when plurals have no singular. A listener named Brent called in with this question: I have a question: how come pants, trousers, slacks, corduroys are all plurals even though there is only one of them? Guest writer
Grammar Girl here. Last week we talked about capitalizing words in the business world. Today we're going to talk about capitalization in general. If you recall, in English, we capitalize proper nounswords that name a specific thing or person, words s
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is generic personal pronouns. Nolan in Victoria, British Columbia, asked the following question: Just wondering about whether to use she or he in terms of giving examples. Since she was written out of the literature f
1. The United States along with Japan, China, South Korea and Russia all agree North Korea shouldn't have nuclear weapons. President Bush says a diplomatic solution needs to be reached with North Kore
Using Polite Language in Office Business 使用礼貌用语开展业务 陈豪在北京的ABC美国公司工作,他看见美国同事Amy正跟办公室另外几个人一起出去。 (Office ambience) CH:Amy, Are you guys going to lunch? A:Yes.
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster: more about the redesigned Test of English as a Foreign Language from the Educational Testing Service. Over the coming year, the new TOEFL iBT -- or Internet-based test -- will replace
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: to be or not to be, or should there be an -ing? That is the question as we look at gerunds and infinitives. RS: To be, to run, to eat: the to indicates the infinitive form of the
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: sensing the meaning of words from their sound. A study in next week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explores the connection. RS: Researchers studied