VOA慢速英语2018--The Verbs Let, Allow and Permit

The verbs let, allow and permit are part of a group of verbs called causatives. These verbs express how one person or thing causes something else to happen. For instance, if I said, She let me borrow the book, the subject (she) is not the person who

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition. Ph

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Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we return to a very common verb form in English phrasal verbs. You will find one phrasal verb in every 192 words of written English. They will make your English sound more natural once

The Excitement of Three-Part Phrasal Verbs

The Excitement of Three-Part Phrasal Verbs Popular music can teach you a lot about the English language. You may not realize it, but musicians are actually teaching you about English grammar in each song they perform. Consider this song by the famous

VOA慢速英语2016--Grab Onto Phrasal Verbs

Grab Onto Phrasal Verbs Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we look at a very common verb form in English phrasal verbs. There are over 5,000 verbs that fall in this category. Do you know how to use them? In this episode

英语单词大师：To Catch On to Phrasal Verbs, It

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition

词汇大师-- To Catch On to Phrasal Verbs

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition

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Grammar Girl here. Listen up, everyone! Todays topic is phrasal verbs, as in to listen up. And now, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, a listener, Paulino from Minneapolis, would like to know what phrasal verbs are and why they are called that. Phras

Cooking with Phrasal Verbs

In a recent program, we told you about phrasal verbs related to food. The program centered on eating food: what, how much and when. You will remember that a phrasal verb is a verb made of two or more words: a verb plus a preposition or adverb, or bot

Verbs and Gerunds in Speech and Fiction Writing

The American rock group Journey released the song Don't Stop Believin' in 1981. This song, still popular in karaoke music bars, can help you learn about English grammar. Let's listen to some words from the song: Don't stop believing Hold on to that f

VOA慢速英语2017--Thanksgiving and English Verbs

Every year around the Thanksgiving holiday, a strange ceremony happens in Washington, DC. The president stands outside the White House, gives a brief speech and then officially pardons a turkey. A pardon is a declaration that someone will not be puni

No Link Between Some 1)High-Carbohydrate Foods and Cancer

Broadcast: Jan 30 2003 Researchers say there appears to be no link between a substance found in some high-carbohydrate foods and the development of some types of cancer. U.S. and Swedish researchers c

Everyday Grammar: Introducing Phrasal Verbs

Everyday Grammar: Introducing Phrasal Verbs Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we look at a very common verb form in English phrasal verbs. There are over 5,000 verbs that fall in this category. Do you know how to use t

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Weasel, Duck, Dog: Animals That Are Also Verbs A few months ago, I told Anna Matteo I would write a Words and Their Stories program about animals that are also verbs. But I failed to keep my promise. Instead of accepting responsibility, I told her I

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By VOA News 12 January 2008 The husband of Pakistan's assassinated former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto says he thinks recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan are part of an attempt to rig upcoming parliamentary elections. In an in

英语单词大师：Phrasal Verbs

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: They're all around us, especially in spoken English. The first word is a verb. The second w

英语单词大师：Exceptional Verbs

AA: Im Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. With me this week on Wordmaster is our English teacher friend Lida Baker in Los Angeles, to talk about a few verbs that can cause trouble for even the best-trained non-native speakers. BAKER: I got the ide

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Exceptional Verbs

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 15, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: August 18, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. With me this week on Wordmaster is our English teacher friend Lida Baker in Los Angeles, to talk about a few verbs

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HEALTH REPORT - Study Shows No Link Between Cell Phones and Rare Tumor By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 I'm Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Health Report. New resear

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By Jessica Berman Washington 06 December 2007 Children who are overweight are at significant risk of developing heart disease as adults. That's the conclusion of two studies published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine , which predicts wh