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Male: I think we better 1) review. Female: Yup good idea. Male: OK, the most important rule, the one that all the others serve to protect and 2) execute is that verbs and their subject must agree. Sin

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08 Selecting a Health Insurance Plan GLOSSARY open enrollment a period of time once a year when employees can sign up forone of several health insurance plans and other benefits offered by the employer * We wont be allowed to change our health insura

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Buying or Borrowing Books? Books are close friends of humanity. They can arm us with knowledge and information we need to make success of life. Through books we can obtain skills and techniques for survival and development. Through books we can enlig

2015年ESL之日常生活 07 Selecting Window Treatments

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is ain't and a few other troublesome contractions. To quote the famous opening lines of the first-ever talking picture, The Jazz Singer: Wait a minute, wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet! You may have been chi

英语语法：188 Lay Versus Lie

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Today, Bonnie Trenga will help us figure out whether a fast-food chain is on the cutting edge of grammar, or its just being creative with verb tenses. Its time to dissect the McDonalds advertising slogan Im loving it. An ESL teacher named Devaki wrot

VOA标准英语2015--世界卫生组织已批准婴儿脑膜炎疫苗

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He peeled the orange. He separated all the sections. He put them on a plate. He took them to his wife. She took a bite. This orange is no good, she said. There's no juice! Where's the juice? He said, Well, not all oranges are juicy, honey. Oranges ar

ESL Podcast 676 – Selecting a Health Insurance Plan

Mikhail: Whats all this? Carol: Its open enrollment at my company and Im thinking of switching health plans. I have an HMO right now and Im thinking of switching to a PPO. That way, I can see doctors outside of my current network and still be covered