美语听力与发音技巧 listen 24

美语听力与发音技巧 第24期（那些词重读呢） Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on contrastive stress. If you listen to previous daily tips, you will recall th

英语语法：235 Why Doesn’t “Veterans Day” Have an A

by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

英语学习的捷径，全是干货，真实用！

Improve your Pronunciation 改善发音方式 Choose a paragraph and read aloud. 选择一个段落并大声朗读。 Choose a paragraph and mark each sentence with a sound script (helpful pronunciation markup). This will help you read more naturally

2013年ESL之就医和人际交往 22 Dating a Possessive Person

Dating a Possessive Person Eliana: Youre here! I didnt think youd be able to come. Matt: Why? I like seeing a movie with my friends as much as the next guy. Eliana: Yeah, but its been weeks since weve seen you, ever since you started dating Helen. Ma

单词拼写易出错？小技巧帮你纠正

Nothing makes your paper appear shabby or unpolished like the appearance of several misspelled words in your text. While we can depend on technology to let us know when we've made errors in spelling, it's important to know that technology has flaws. 没

中国十二生肖：鼠-The Rat

The Rat The Rat - Chinese Zodiac AnimalBirth Years: 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020, 2032, 2044 Compatible with: Dragon and Monkey 图片1 Birthstone: Emerald Precious Flower: Narcissus Western Equivalent: Sagittarius Strengths: ambiti

手把手教你学口语17

If you listen to previous daily tips, you will recall that content words, such as nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs are normally stressed, and function words, such as personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and prepositions are normally not

英文书摘精选 醋坛子老公有暴力倾向怎么办？

Dear Annie: I am a young married woman. My husband, let's call him Pete, is very possessive and jealous. He also has an anger problem. Anytime I go to the store, he wants to know exactly what store I am going to, who I'm going with, when I am going t

词汇大师--How to Avoid Being Seduced by Words

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Our guest is the author of a book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't. RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newspaper

词汇大师-- Wise Writing Instead of '-Wise'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't. RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newsp

英语语法：162 Better Versus Best

Grammar Girl here. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will be your hostess with the mostest today, because were looking at how to make comparisons using adjectives and adverbs. Bonnie writes, When you want to modify a noun, is it OK to stick a more or a most

英语语法：115 Apostrophe Catastrophe (Part One)

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

英语语法：158 Apostrophe Catastrophe

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary

On a recent program, we explained that knowing just a few root words in English can help you understand the meaning of hundreds more words. To refresh your memory, a root word is the simplest form of a word. For example, two forms of the root for the

英语语法：47 Double Possessives

Grammar Girl here. Todays lesson involves a question of Cathysor should that be a question of Cathy? By the end of this podcast, youll know which possessive to use. Now, Cathy has been wondering about the so-called double possessive and asks, Which i

NPR 2012-06-14

Syrian state television is reporting the troops have retaken control of rebellious mountain village in Al-Hafa after more than a week of heavy shelling there. Rebels had withdrawn from Al-Hafa overnight after intense fighting and in nearby villages.

英语中后缀（Suffixes）的用法

后缀就是一个或一组英文字母，加在一个单词的结尾就能够组成新的单词。今天我们就来学习-able，-ous和-ly这些后缀的用法。 Selling 的动作被称作Sale 在sale 后面加上后缀 -able就可以将它变为一

单词拼写总出错？十个小技巧帮你拿下！

Nothing makes your paper appear shabby or unpolished like the appearance of several misspelled words in your text. While we can depend on technology to let us know when we've made errors in spelling, it's important to know that technology has flaws. 没

Father’s Day还是Fathers’ Day？

Although the name of the event is usually understood as a plural possessive (i.e. day belonging to fathers), which would under normal English punctuation guidelines be spelled Fathers' Day, the most common spelling is Father's Day, as if it were a si

英语单词大师：Wise Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't.RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newspa