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Everyday Grammar: Mastering Reported Speech

We often need to tell others what someone else said. There are two ways to do this. One is to say the same words and use quotation marks. That is direct speech. The other method is to summarize, or tell about what someone said. This is called reporte

英语语法：180 How to Write Numbers

Grammar Girl here. Since this is my 100th episode, it seems like a fitting time to talk about how to use numbers in sentences. [Note: There are many exceptions to the rules about how to write numbers. These tips will point you in the right direction,

英语语法：214 Title Capitalization Rules

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is capitalizing titles. In an email, Michelle from Manila asked, Should I capitalize all the first letters of the words in a title or just the first letter of the first word? This is one of those style questions. For

英语语法：211 Grammar Style Issues

by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is style guides. It's true that when it comes to grammar there are a lot of hard and fast rules; but it's also true that there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of issues that are dictated by style. I know it would be so

英语语法：212 How to Format URLs in Text

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英语语法：127 How Many Spaces After A Period?

Grammar Girl here. This week I have two topics for you: The number of spaces after a period at the end of a sentence, and whether you should use who or that to refer to people (and pets). Now here's our first listener question. His friends believe it

英语语法：6 Citing Podcasts and Websites

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to deal with electronic citations. Listener Question Now to get started, here's a listener question: Hi, Grammar Girl. My name is Laura and I am a teacher of 9th-grade English and a big fan of your podcast. I'v

英语语法：51 Generic Singular Pronouns

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

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Who Makes Grammar Rules? 英语日常语法:谁制定了语法规则? If you learned about grammar in school, you were probably taught to think about correct and incorrect ways of using a language. Maybe you had to unlearn some grammar patterns that

Everyday Grammar: 3 Grammar Rules That Are Dying

Everyday Grammar: 3 Grammar Rules That Are Dying For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we have good news for English learners. Just as words come and go in English, so do grammar rules. Today we will show you three difficult gramm

TED演讲:语法重要吗(1)

You're telling a friend an amazing story, and you just get to the best part when suddenly he interrupts, 你正给朋友讲一个精彩的故事，刚讲到最精彩的部分时，他突然打断了你说： The alien and I, not Me and the alien. 应该

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: going beyond the rules of grammar. RS: Diane Larsen-Freeman is director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. She believes grammar is better understood

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I'm a lexicographer. I make dictionaries. And my job as a lexicographer is to try to put all the words possible into the dictionary. My job is not to decide what a word is; that is your job. Everybody who speaks English decides together what's a word

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: going beyond the rules of grammar. RS: Diane Larsen-Freeman is director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. She believes grammar is better understood

英语语法：20 Strunk and White

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice Fifty years ago this month, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as we know it today was published*, and in honor of the occasion, th

英语语法：57 How to Use Italics

Today were going to talk about italics, that slanted type that you sometimes see amidst regular roman type. Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it'll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is

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hug: How do you learn English grammar? The purpose of learning grammar is to help learners to have a better understanding of the language. It is no use remembering grammar rules by rote because there are no rules without exceptions. It is sensible to

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今天我们要说一个让很多朋友困惑的问题：英语语法。中国的英语语法教学，非常反人性。打击了太多人的英语学习兴趣，让我们惧怕英语、远离英语。今天，我们来说说怎么学语法，才有用