Describing Your Birthday

Today on Everyday Grammar, we will learn to describe our birthdays. When people ask us the question, When is your birthday? We can answer a few different ways.

06 Apr 2025,·7 mins mins

Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part Two

This is Everyday Grammar. I'm Lucia. And I'm Kaveh. You know, I was bored the other day. And I wrote a song. The title is My Dog is Fluffy. Okay. Or cute? No, fluffy. It has more mass appeal, in my opinion.

22 Mar 2025,·2 mins mins

Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three

From VOA Learning English, this is everyday grammar. English has many patterns. Basic grammatical patterns can explain the structure of around 95% of sentences in English, says Martha Kohn, a grammar expert.

21 Mar 2025,·8 mins mins

Common Adverbs in Conversation: Amplifiers, Downtoners

From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting. You have just presented a plan to your business partners.

16 Mar 2025,·8 mins mins

Adverb and Adjective Choices in Conversation

From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine two American students are talking outside of their school. Let's listen to the imaginary conversation. Today is going slow.

01 Dec 2024,·6 mins mins

Questions, Answers about Holiday Activities

Imagine you are talking to an American. You are curious to know about what they did during the holidays of Christmas and New Year's. How can you ask about these or other holidays?

30 Nov 2024,·4 mins mins

Grammar for Making New Year’s Resolutions

The New Year can come on different dates for different cultures. Most of the Western world, for example, celebrates it on January 1st. But one thing many cultures have in common is the idea of New Year's resolutions.

26 Oct 2024,·6 mins mins

Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One

Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech, adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example. But sometimes studying the English sentence from a larger perspective is useful. One way to get a bigger view of English is to study common sentence

24 Oct 2024,·9 mins mins