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Everyday Grammar - VOA Learning English — 250 episodes

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1

Words Come and Go in English - March 12, 2025

2

Reviewing Your Birthday Message - February 25, 2025

3

Describing Your Birthday - February 18, 2025

4

Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three - February 04, 2025

5

Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part Two - January 02, 2025

6

Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One - January 02, 2025

7

Fun with Future Tenses - December 12, 2024

8

Simple Past and Present Perfect - December 05, 2024

9

An Introduction to Verb Tenses - November 14, 2024

10

Are You Learning the Progressive Tenses? - November 12, 2024

11

You Want to Learn about Tag Questions, Don't You? - November 05, 2024

12

Learn 10 Separable Phrasal Verbs - October 16, 2024

13

Everyday Grammar: Introducing Phrasal Verbs - October 08, 2024

14

How much Do You Know About Quantifiers? - October 03, 2024

15

Is It Harris' or Harris's? - August 21, 2024

16

Language of the Olympic Games, Part 2 - July 18, 2024

17

It’s ‘Kind of Just’ Hedging - July 08, 2024

18

Language for Olympic Games: Host, Compete, Expect - July 03, 2024

19

Talking about What We See in Space - June 27, 2024

20

Reservations and Rentals - June 18, 2024

21

Talking about Hot Weather Around the World - June 12, 2024

22

Grammar and Talking about Hot Weather - June 03, 2024

23

Grammar for Science and Technology: Prefixes, Measurements - May 29, 2024

24

Memorial Day and Grammar - May 20, 2024

25

Reviewing Prefixes in Protest Stories - May 16, 2024

26

Prefixes in Reports on Student Protests - May 09, 2024

27

Writing Feedback: Large Numbers - May 02, 2024

28

Large Numbers, Count Nouns in the News - April 25, 2024

29

Talking about Sports Teams - April 18, 2024

30

More Writing Feedback: What Is Your National Dish? - April 11, 2024

31

Writing Feedback: What Is Your National Dish? - April 04, 2024

32

Symbols of Easter - March 27, 2024

33

Talking about Your Dreams - March 20, 2024

34

What Is Your Country’s National Dish? - March 13, 2024

35

Learn Indefinite Pronouns with 'Fast Car' - March 06, 2024

36

Breaking the Rules with Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ - February 27, 2024

37

What Is Popular in Different Countries? - February 22, 2024

38

Study: Collapse of Ocean Currents Could Cause Major Climate Problems - February 16, 2024

39

What Is Popular in Your Country? - February 15, 2024

40

Ways to Say 'Goodbye' - February 07, 2024

41

A Trip Around the World - February 01, 2024

42

Population, Overpopulation, Underpopulation - January 24, 2024

43

Language and Mental Health - January 17, 2024

44

The Grammar of ‘Share:’ Social, Economic Uses - January 11, 2024

45

Personification, Adjectives in 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' - January 04, 2024

46

Grammar and New Year’s Resolutions - December 27, 2023

47

Grammar, Language in 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' - December 21, 2023

48

Grammar for a Gift-giving Season - December 13, 2023

49

Reviewing Pet Descriptions - December 07, 2023

50

Grammar for Giving Gifts - November 29, 2023

51

Describing Pets - November 21, 2023

52

"Happy Thanksgiving" - November 15, 2023

53

Grammar and Pessimism - November 09, 2023

54

Grammar and Optimism - October 31, 2023

55

Grammar and Halloween - October 25, 2023

56

Grammar and Disagreements - October 19, 2023

57

The Language of International Conflicts - October 11, 2023

58

Grammar and Uncertainty - October 05, 2023

59

Discussing Alien Life - September 27, 2023

60

Offering Coffee and Tea - September 21, 2023

61

Three Phrasal Verbs with “Along” - September 13, 2023

62

Discussing Artificial Intelligence - September 05, 2023

63

More Verbal Tenses in We Didn't Start the Fire - August 31, 2023

64

Grammar and Cleaning, Part 2 - August 24, 2023

65

Present Tense in 'We Didn’t Start the Fire' - August 17, 2023

66

Grammar and Cleaning - August 09, 2023

67

Blend Words: Portmanteaus - August 03, 2023

68

Grammar and Libraries - July 27, 2023

69

A Close Reading of 'Looking for America,' Part 2 - July 18, 2023

70

Recommendations, Part Two - July 13, 2023

71

A Close Reading of 'Looking for America' - July 06, 2023

72

Grammar and Recommendations - June 29, 2023

73

Grammar and the Economy: Negotiations - June 22, 2023

74

Reviewing Your Message about Guests Part 2 - June 14, 2023

75

Reviewing Your Message about Guests - June 07, 2023

76

Grammar and the Economy: Prices - June 01, 2023

77

Grammar for Guests - May 25, 2023

78

Grammar and the Economy: Inflation - May 18, 2023

79

Memories, Mother’s Day and Grammar - May 10, 2023

80

Grammar and Trees - May 04, 2023

81

Grammar for Describing When We Are Not Feeling Well - April 27, 2023

82

Grammar and Cars - April 19, 2023

83

Pronouncing Years in American English - April 12, 2023

84

Feedback: Writing About Your Living Space - April 06, 2023

85

Puns and The Last of Us - March 29, 2023

86

Where Do You Live? Part 2 - March 23, 2023

87

Reviewing Your Poetry - March 15, 2023

88

Poetry and Syllables - March 08, 2023

89

Parts of Speech and Poetry - February 28, 2023

90

Grammar and Money - February 23, 2023

91

Where Do You Live? - February 14, 2023

92

Settings, Actions, Lesson in Fairy Tales - February 07, 2023

93

Using Definite Articles before Comparative Adjectives - February 01, 2023

94

Talking about Art, Part 2 - January 26, 2023

95

Talking about Art - January 19, 2023

96

Once Upon a Time: The “Who,” “What,” and “When” of Fairy Tales - January 11, 2023

97

Questions, Answers about Holiday Activities - January 05, 2023

98

Grammar for Exercise, Part 2 - December 15, 2022

99

Grammar for Exercise - December 07, 2022

100

How to Talk about Music - December 01, 2022

101

Making Abbreviations Acronyms and Initialisms - November 17, 2022

102

Grammar and Gossip - November 09, 2022

103

Unbeknownst and ‘Til in a Taylor Swift Song - November 03, 2022

104

Phrasal Verbs with Fall  - October 27, 2022

105

How to Express Condolences - October 19, 2022

106

Use Possessive Pronouns to Talk About Friends and Family - October 13, 2022

107

Reviewing Your Favorite Character Description - October 05, 2022

108

Describing Your Favorite Character Part 2 - September 28, 2022

109

How to Wish Other People Well - September 22, 2022

110

Describing Your Favorite Character - September 15, 2022

111

Grammar and Attention - September 07, 2022

112

Business and Word Choices: Nouns and Verbs - August 25, 2022

113

Describing Your Birthday - August 17, 2022

114

Grammar and Clarity: Abstract Subjects - August 10, 2022

115

Making Polite Requests in Email Part 2 - August 03, 2022

116

What Are Elliptical Structures? - July 28, 2022

117

Making Polite Requests in Email - July 21, 2022

118

How to Talk about a Movie - July 14, 2022

119

Most Useful Eating and Drinking Expressions - July 07, 2022

120

Sentence Length: Are Short Sentences Childish? - June 29, 2022

121

Describing Your Favorite Book  - June 22, 2022

122

The Most Useful Weather Expressions - June 16, 2022

123

Learn to Pronounce Past Tense -ed with Taylor Swift - June 08, 2022

124

But: a Small, Common, and Important Word - June 01, 2022

125

Language Variation in the US - May 25, 2022

126

Hobbies and Studies - May 17, 2022

127

Connotation - May 12, 2022

128

What Are Dangling Participles? - May 04, 2022

129

Lana Del Rey Song Teaches About Figurative Language - April 27, 2022

130

Giving Writers Helpful Feedback - April 19, 2022

131

Expressing Thanks and Appreciation - April 12, 2022

132

Writing about Your Life - April 06, 2022

133

Describing Your Life - March 24, 2022

134

Giving Reasons - March 15, 2022

135

Discussing Moral Issues: Important Structures and Terms - March 09, 2022

136

International Crises and Verb Forms - March 01, 2022

137

Modal Verbs and Talking on the Phone - February 22, 2022

138

Elton John Song Teaches About Future Time - February 15, 2022

139

Grammar and the Olympics: Ordinal Numbers, Expressions of Surprise - February 08, 2022

140

Action Movie Teaches You about Conditional Statements - February 02, 2022

141

Past Unreal Conditional and Contractions in ‘Citizen Kane’ - January 26, 2022

142

Contractions with Question Words - January 18, 2022

143

Use Grammar to Make Inferences, Improve Reading Skills - January 11, 2022

144

Auxiliary Verbs in Everyday Speech - January 04, 2022

145

A Look Back at 2021: Grammar and the Passing Seasons - December 28, 2021

146

Function Words in Everyday Speech - December 15, 2021

147

Verbs, Nouns, and Pronunciation - November 30, 2021

148

Thanksgiving and English Grammar - November 22, 2021

149

BTS Teaches You About Similes, Prepositions - November 16, 2021

150

Adele Teaches You English Grammar - November 09, 2021

151

Modifiers in Science Writing - November 03, 2021

152

Grammar and Scary Movies - October 26, 2021

153

Nouns and Pronouns in Popular Music - October 21, 2021

154

Describing Your Day: The Evening - October 14, 2021

155

Describing Your Day: Midday Activities - October 01, 2021

156

Phrases, Adjectives, Determiners to Describe Autumn - September 30, 2021

157

School Returns Go Better Than Expected - September 29, 2021

158

Describing Your Day: Mornings - September 22, 2021

159

Bad Habits, Adjectives and the Simple Present - September 14, 2021

160

September 11th, Memories, Verb Forms - September 09, 2021

161

Phrasal Verbs, Problem Solving and Grammar - August 30, 2021

162

When to Use ‘Some’ and Not ‘A’ or ‘An’ - August 25, 2021

163

Shortened Statements with the Word "To" - August 18, 2021

164

How to Split Infinitives - August 09, 2021

165

Vocabulary for New Sports at the Tokyo Olympics - July 29, 2021

166

How 'So' Can Replace a Lot of Information - July 27, 2021

167

Crime and Prepositions - July 20, 2021

168

Grammar, Planning, and Summer Trips - July 13, 2021

169

Simplify Your Language to Sound Smarter - July 07, 2021

170

Grammar for Summer: Rest, Relaxation - July 01, 2021

171

Is a Situation a Condition? - June 23, 2021

172

Verbs and Summer Weather - June 16, 2021

173

Making Sense of Demonyms - Nationality Nouns - June 08, 2021

174

Making Sense of Adjectives from Country Names - June 07, 2021

175

Memorial Day and Grammar - May 25, 2021

176

Mom, Dad, or Parent? Lawmakers Rule on Gendered Words - May 20, 2021

177

Bob Dylan Teaches You About Questions, Count Nouns - May 12, 2021

178

Grammar and Mother’s Day - May 05, 2021

179

Phrasal Verbs with Spring in Them - April 28, 2021

180

I Want to Thank the Academy - April 22, 2021

181

'This Ain't It' and Other Short Forms - April 15, 2021

182

Apologies and Prepositions - April 06, 2021

183

Fight Online Crime with Grammar - April 01, 2021

184

Why Is the News Always Breaking? - March 25, 2021

185

Different Areas in America, Different Second-Person Plural Pronouns - March 18, 2021

186

Are ‘Me and My Friends’ Breaking Grammar Rules? - March 10, 2021

187

You, You Guys, Y’all: Second-Person Pronouns in American English - March 03, 2021

188

Memes Can Teach You English Grammar - February 24, 2021

189

Spacecraft, Pronouns and Grammar - February 17, 2021

190

Are Infinitives Really Verbs? - February 09, 2021

191

A Journey With the Present Perfect, Part Two - February 04, 2021

192

A Journey With the Present Perfect, Part One - January 27, 2021

193

Four Common Phrasal Verbs with ‘Off’ - January 20, 2021

194

A Reason to Understand Adjective Clauses - January 14, 2021

195

The Verbs Advise, Suggest and Recommend - January 07, 2021

196

Grammar for Making New Year’s Resolutions - December 23, 2020

197

Adjective Clauses That Describe Times - December 17, 2020

198

Differences Between American, British Grammar - December 10, 2020

199

Adjective Clauses That Describe Places - December 03, 2020

200

If and Whether, Part 2 - November 19, 2020

201

Phrasal Verbs and Elections - November 11, 2020

202

If and Whether, Part 1 - November 06, 2020

203

Indefinite Pronouns in Negative Sentences - October 29, 2020

204

Taking Adjectives to the Extreme - October 22, 2020

205

There Is Something Strange about Indefinite Pronouns - October 15, 2020

206

Finding Participles in News Headlines - October 09, 2020

207

The Present Participle - October 05, 2020

208

What Are Reciprocal Pronouns? - October 01, 2020

209

What Are Intensive Pronouns? - September 17, 2020

210

Understanding the Past Participle - September 10, 2020

211

Three Useful Phrasal Expressions - September 03, 2020

212

Three Phrases for Expressing Regret in English - August 26, 2020

213

What Are Phrasal Expressions? - August 20, 2020

214

When Not to Use the Word 'To' - August 12, 2020

215

TED Talks Teach You About Phrasal Verbs - August 06, 2020

216

How Many Meanings of 'Run' Do You Know? - July 29, 2020

217

Question Words - July 22, 2020

218

Ways to Say You Are Annoyed at Behavior - July 15, 2020

219

Intonation, Speaking and Grammar - July 09, 2020

220

American Phrases for Warning or Advising Someone - July 01, 2020

221

Comedy Can Teach You About Grammar, Speaking - June 25, 2020

222

Part 2: Comparing Equal Amounts with As…As - June 17, 2020

223

Phrasal Verbs, Phrasal Nouns, and Speaking - June 11, 2020

224

Part 1: Making Comparisons with As...As - June 04, 2020

225

Compound Nouns and Pronunciation - May 28, 2020

226

Test Yourself with this Everyday Grammar Quiz - May 21, 2020

227

Fiction, Adjective Phrases and Adjective Clauses - May 14, 2020

228

The Grammar of Star Wars - May 06, 2020

229

Tech, Communication Apps, and Grammar - April 30, 2020

230

Grammar Games at Home: Simon Says - April 22, 2020

231

Advice, Modals, and Coronavirus - April 16, 2020

232

Grammar Games at Home: Questions and Answers - April 07, 2020

233

Grammar, Quantities, and Public Health - April 01, 2020

234

Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy - March 26, 2020

235

Two-word Prepositions in Learning English Stories - March 18, 2020

236

‘Blinding Lights’ and English Grammar - March 12, 2020

237

Titanic Teaches You English Grammar - March 05, 2020

238

What Are You Excited About Learning? - February 27, 2020

239

Is Grammar Cool? - February 20, 2020

240

A Common Form: Be + Adjective + Infinitive - February 18, 2020

241

What are Intensifiers? - February 06, 2020

242

What Are You Willing to Do? - January 30, 2020

243

This Is Casual Grammar, Dude - January 23, 2020

244

The Difference: Used to, Be Used to, Get Used to - January 15, 2020

245

Definitions, Nouns, and Politics - January 09, 2020

246

Soccer and Grammar - December 19, 2019

247

Digital Communication: Emojis and Grammar - December 12, 2019

248

Do These Things to Improve Your Collocations - December 05, 2019

249

Text Messages and Internet Forums - November 20, 2019

250

Cleft Sentences in Speaking and Writing - November 13, 2019