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Everyday Grammar - VOA Learning English — 250 episodes
Words Come and Go in English - March 12, 2025
Reviewing Your Birthday Message - February 25, 2025
Describing Your Birthday - February 18, 2025
Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three - February 04, 2025
Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part Two - January 02, 2025
Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One - January 02, 2025
Fun with Future Tenses - December 12, 2024
Simple Past and Present Perfect - December 05, 2024
An Introduction to Verb Tenses - November 14, 2024
Are You Learning the Progressive Tenses? - November 12, 2024
You Want to Learn about Tag Questions, Don't You? - November 05, 2024
Learn 10 Separable Phrasal Verbs - October 16, 2024
Everyday Grammar: Introducing Phrasal Verbs - October 08, 2024
How much Do You Know About Quantifiers? - October 03, 2024
Is It Harris' or Harris's? - August 21, 2024
Language of the Olympic Games, Part 2 - July 18, 2024
It’s ‘Kind of Just’ Hedging - July 08, 2024
Language for Olympic Games: Host, Compete, Expect - July 03, 2024
Talking about What We See in Space - June 27, 2024
Reservations and Rentals - June 18, 2024
Talking about Hot Weather Around the World - June 12, 2024
Grammar and Talking about Hot Weather - June 03, 2024
Grammar for Science and Technology: Prefixes, Measurements - May 29, 2024
Memorial Day and Grammar - May 20, 2024
Reviewing Prefixes in Protest Stories - May 16, 2024
Prefixes in Reports on Student Protests - May 09, 2024
Writing Feedback: Large Numbers - May 02, 2024
Large Numbers, Count Nouns in the News - April 25, 2024
Talking about Sports Teams - April 18, 2024
More Writing Feedback: What Is Your National Dish? - April 11, 2024
Writing Feedback: What Is Your National Dish? - April 04, 2024
Symbols of Easter - March 27, 2024
Talking about Your Dreams - March 20, 2024
What Is Your Country’s National Dish? - March 13, 2024
Learn Indefinite Pronouns with 'Fast Car' - March 06, 2024
Breaking the Rules with Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ - February 27, 2024
What Is Popular in Different Countries? - February 22, 2024
Study: Collapse of Ocean Currents Could Cause Major Climate Problems - February 16, 2024
What Is Popular in Your Country? - February 15, 2024
Ways to Say 'Goodbye' - February 07, 2024
A Trip Around the World - February 01, 2024
Population, Overpopulation, Underpopulation - January 24, 2024
Language and Mental Health - January 17, 2024
The Grammar of ‘Share:’ Social, Economic Uses - January 11, 2024
Personification, Adjectives in 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' - January 04, 2024
Grammar and New Year’s Resolutions - December 27, 2023
Grammar, Language in 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' - December 21, 2023
Grammar for a Gift-giving Season - December 13, 2023
Reviewing Pet Descriptions - December 07, 2023
Grammar for Giving Gifts - November 29, 2023
Describing Pets - November 21, 2023
"Happy Thanksgiving" - November 15, 2023
Grammar and Pessimism - November 09, 2023
Grammar and Optimism - October 31, 2023
Grammar and Halloween - October 25, 2023
Grammar and Disagreements - October 19, 2023
The Language of International Conflicts - October 11, 2023
Grammar and Uncertainty - October 05, 2023
Discussing Alien Life - September 27, 2023
Offering Coffee and Tea - September 21, 2023
Three Phrasal Verbs with “Along” - September 13, 2023
Discussing Artificial Intelligence - September 05, 2023
More Verbal Tenses in We Didn't Start the Fire - August 31, 2023
Grammar and Cleaning, Part 2 - August 24, 2023
Present Tense in 'We Didn’t Start the Fire' - August 17, 2023
Grammar and Cleaning - August 09, 2023
Blend Words: Portmanteaus - August 03, 2023
Grammar and Libraries - July 27, 2023
A Close Reading of 'Looking for America,' Part 2 - July 18, 2023
Recommendations, Part Two - July 13, 2023
A Close Reading of 'Looking for America' - July 06, 2023
Grammar and Recommendations - June 29, 2023
Grammar and the Economy: Negotiations - June 22, 2023
Reviewing Your Message about Guests Part 2 - June 14, 2023
Reviewing Your Message about Guests - June 07, 2023
Grammar and the Economy: Prices - June 01, 2023
Grammar for Guests - May 25, 2023
Grammar and the Economy: Inflation - May 18, 2023
Memories, Mother’s Day and Grammar - May 10, 2023
Grammar and Trees - May 04, 2023
Grammar for Describing When We Are Not Feeling Well - April 27, 2023
Grammar and Cars - April 19, 2023
Pronouncing Years in American English - April 12, 2023
Feedback: Writing About Your Living Space - April 06, 2023
Puns and The Last of Us - March 29, 2023
Where Do You Live? Part 2 - March 23, 2023
Reviewing Your Poetry - March 15, 2023
Poetry and Syllables - March 08, 2023
Parts of Speech and Poetry - February 28, 2023
Grammar and Money - February 23, 2023
Where Do You Live? - February 14, 2023
Settings, Actions, Lesson in Fairy Tales - February 07, 2023
Using Definite Articles before Comparative Adjectives - February 01, 2023
Talking about Art, Part 2 - January 26, 2023
Talking about Art - January 19, 2023
Once Upon a Time: The “Who,” “What,” and “When” of Fairy Tales - January 11, 2023
Questions, Answers about Holiday Activities - January 05, 2023
Grammar for Exercise, Part 2 - December 15, 2022
Grammar for Exercise - December 07, 2022
How to Talk about Music - December 01, 2022
Making Abbreviations Acronyms and Initialisms - November 17, 2022
Grammar and Gossip - November 09, 2022
Unbeknownst and ‘Til in a Taylor Swift Song - November 03, 2022
Phrasal Verbs with Fall - October 27, 2022
How to Express Condolences - October 19, 2022
Use Possessive Pronouns to Talk About Friends and Family - October 13, 2022
Reviewing Your Favorite Character Description - October 05, 2022
Describing Your Favorite Character Part 2 - September 28, 2022
How to Wish Other People Well - September 22, 2022
Describing Your Favorite Character - September 15, 2022
Grammar and Attention - September 07, 2022
Business and Word Choices: Nouns and Verbs - August 25, 2022
Describing Your Birthday - August 17, 2022
Grammar and Clarity: Abstract Subjects - August 10, 2022
Making Polite Requests in Email Part 2 - August 03, 2022
What Are Elliptical Structures? - July 28, 2022
Making Polite Requests in Email - July 21, 2022
How to Talk about a Movie - July 14, 2022
Most Useful Eating and Drinking Expressions - July 07, 2022
Sentence Length: Are Short Sentences Childish? - June 29, 2022
Describing Your Favorite Book - June 22, 2022
The Most Useful Weather Expressions - June 16, 2022
Learn to Pronounce Past Tense -ed with Taylor Swift - June 08, 2022
But: a Small, Common, and Important Word - June 01, 2022
Language Variation in the US - May 25, 2022
Hobbies and Studies - May 17, 2022
Connotation - May 12, 2022
What Are Dangling Participles? - May 04, 2022
Lana Del Rey Song Teaches About Figurative Language - April 27, 2022
Giving Writers Helpful Feedback - April 19, 2022
Expressing Thanks and Appreciation - April 12, 2022
Writing about Your Life - April 06, 2022
Describing Your Life - March 24, 2022
Giving Reasons - March 15, 2022
Discussing Moral Issues: Important Structures and Terms - March 09, 2022
International Crises and Verb Forms - March 01, 2022
Modal Verbs and Talking on the Phone - February 22, 2022
Elton John Song Teaches About Future Time - February 15, 2022
Grammar and the Olympics: Ordinal Numbers, Expressions of Surprise - February 08, 2022
Action Movie Teaches You about Conditional Statements - February 02, 2022
Past Unreal Conditional and Contractions in ‘Citizen Kane’ - January 26, 2022
Contractions with Question Words - January 18, 2022
Use Grammar to Make Inferences, Improve Reading Skills - January 11, 2022
Auxiliary Verbs in Everyday Speech - January 04, 2022
A Look Back at 2021: Grammar and the Passing Seasons - December 28, 2021
Function Words in Everyday Speech - December 15, 2021
Verbs, Nouns, and Pronunciation - November 30, 2021
Thanksgiving and English Grammar - November 22, 2021
BTS Teaches You About Similes, Prepositions - November 16, 2021
Adele Teaches You English Grammar - November 09, 2021
Modifiers in Science Writing - November 03, 2021
Grammar and Scary Movies - October 26, 2021
Nouns and Pronouns in Popular Music - October 21, 2021
Describing Your Day: The Evening - October 14, 2021
Describing Your Day: Midday Activities - October 01, 2021
Phrases, Adjectives, Determiners to Describe Autumn - September 30, 2021
School Returns Go Better Than Expected - September 29, 2021
Describing Your Day: Mornings - September 22, 2021
Bad Habits, Adjectives and the Simple Present - September 14, 2021
September 11th, Memories, Verb Forms - September 09, 2021
Phrasal Verbs, Problem Solving and Grammar - August 30, 2021
When to Use ‘Some’ and Not ‘A’ or ‘An’ - August 25, 2021
Shortened Statements with the Word "To" - August 18, 2021
How to Split Infinitives - August 09, 2021
Vocabulary for New Sports at the Tokyo Olympics - July 29, 2021
How 'So' Can Replace a Lot of Information - July 27, 2021
Crime and Prepositions - July 20, 2021
Grammar, Planning, and Summer Trips - July 13, 2021
Simplify Your Language to Sound Smarter - July 07, 2021
Grammar for Summer: Rest, Relaxation - July 01, 2021
Is a Situation a Condition? - June 23, 2021
Verbs and Summer Weather - June 16, 2021
Making Sense of Demonyms - Nationality Nouns - June 08, 2021
Making Sense of Adjectives from Country Names - June 07, 2021
Memorial Day and Grammar - May 25, 2021
Mom, Dad, or Parent? Lawmakers Rule on Gendered Words - May 20, 2021
Bob Dylan Teaches You About Questions, Count Nouns - May 12, 2021
Grammar and Mother’s Day - May 05, 2021
Phrasal Verbs with Spring in Them - April 28, 2021
I Want to Thank the Academy - April 22, 2021
'This Ain't It' and Other Short Forms - April 15, 2021
Apologies and Prepositions - April 06, 2021
Fight Online Crime with Grammar - April 01, 2021
Why Is the News Always Breaking? - March 25, 2021
Different Areas in America, Different Second-Person Plural Pronouns - March 18, 2021
Are ‘Me and My Friends’ Breaking Grammar Rules? - March 10, 2021
You, You Guys, Y’all: Second-Person Pronouns in American English - March 03, 2021
Memes Can Teach You English Grammar - February 24, 2021
Spacecraft, Pronouns and Grammar - February 17, 2021
Are Infinitives Really Verbs? - February 09, 2021
A Journey With the Present Perfect, Part Two - February 04, 2021
A Journey With the Present Perfect, Part One - January 27, 2021
Four Common Phrasal Verbs with ‘Off’ - January 20, 2021
A Reason to Understand Adjective Clauses - January 14, 2021
The Verbs Advise, Suggest and Recommend - January 07, 2021
Grammar for Making New Year’s Resolutions - December 23, 2020
Adjective Clauses That Describe Times - December 17, 2020
Differences Between American, British Grammar - December 10, 2020
Adjective Clauses That Describe Places - December 03, 2020
If and Whether, Part 2 - November 19, 2020
Phrasal Verbs and Elections - November 11, 2020
If and Whether, Part 1 - November 06, 2020
Indefinite Pronouns in Negative Sentences - October 29, 2020
Taking Adjectives to the Extreme - October 22, 2020
There Is Something Strange about Indefinite Pronouns - October 15, 2020
Finding Participles in News Headlines - October 09, 2020
The Present Participle - October 05, 2020
What Are Reciprocal Pronouns? - October 01, 2020
What Are Intensive Pronouns? - September 17, 2020
Understanding the Past Participle - September 10, 2020
Three Useful Phrasal Expressions - September 03, 2020
Three Phrases for Expressing Regret in English - August 26, 2020
What Are Phrasal Expressions? - August 20, 2020
When Not to Use the Word 'To' - August 12, 2020
TED Talks Teach You About Phrasal Verbs - August 06, 2020
How Many Meanings of 'Run' Do You Know? - July 29, 2020
Question Words - July 22, 2020
Ways to Say You Are Annoyed at Behavior - July 15, 2020
Intonation, Speaking and Grammar - July 09, 2020
American Phrases for Warning or Advising Someone - July 01, 2020
Comedy Can Teach You About Grammar, Speaking - June 25, 2020
Part 2: Comparing Equal Amounts with As…As - June 17, 2020
Phrasal Verbs, Phrasal Nouns, and Speaking - June 11, 2020
Part 1: Making Comparisons with As...As - June 04, 2020
Compound Nouns and Pronunciation - May 28, 2020
Test Yourself with this Everyday Grammar Quiz - May 21, 2020
Fiction, Adjective Phrases and Adjective Clauses - May 14, 2020
The Grammar of Star Wars - May 06, 2020
Tech, Communication Apps, and Grammar - April 30, 2020
Grammar Games at Home: Simon Says - April 22, 2020
Advice, Modals, and Coronavirus - April 16, 2020
Grammar Games at Home: Questions and Answers - April 07, 2020
Grammar, Quantities, and Public Health - April 01, 2020
Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy - March 26, 2020
Two-word Prepositions in Learning English Stories - March 18, 2020
‘Blinding Lights’ and English Grammar - March 12, 2020
Titanic Teaches You English Grammar - March 05, 2020
What Are You Excited About Learning? - February 27, 2020
Is Grammar Cool? - February 20, 2020
A Common Form: Be + Adjective + Infinitive - February 18, 2020
What are Intensifiers? - February 06, 2020
What Are You Willing to Do? - January 30, 2020
This Is Casual Grammar, Dude - January 23, 2020
The Difference: Used to, Be Used to, Get Used to - January 15, 2020
Definitions, Nouns, and Politics - January 09, 2020
Soccer and Grammar - December 19, 2019
Digital Communication: Emojis and Grammar - December 12, 2019
Do These Things to Improve Your Collocations - December 05, 2019
Text Messages and Internet Forums - November 20, 2019
Cleft Sentences in Speaking and Writing - November 13, 2019