Reviewing Your Favorite Character Description Last week, we asked our readers and listeners to write about their favorite character from a book they had read. One reader, Arunabh wrote to us about their favorite character, Matilda, from the children'...
How to Wish Other People Well Imagine you are talking with a friend. Your friend tells you that they have a big test or job interview coming up soon. This is a good time to wish them well. But how do you do so? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will ex...
In a past report of Everyday Grammar, we talked about how to describe your favorite character from a book you had read. We looked at the children's book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien to help us describe my favorite character,...
Describing Your Favorite Character Think about a time you talked about a favorite character in a book you had read. Maybe you spoke about the character in a literature class at school. Or, perhaps, you discussed the character with a friend or in a bo...
Grammar and Attention News reports and everyday discussions increasingly involve the term attention, as in the attention economy - the idea that human attention is a limited resource. If you wanted to talk about attention, how would you do so? What t...
Reviewing Your Birthday Message Recently, our readers and listeners wrote many lovely messages about their birthdays. We have been reading all of them. Most messages are happy. You wrote about gifts you received, the people who celebrated with you, o...
Business and Word Choices: Nouns and Verbs Imagine you are a business owner. You hire employees and ask them to do the jobs they are best fitted for. One employee is skilled at dealing with people, so you have them interact with customers. Another em...
Describing Your Birthday Last week, my niece and I celebrated our birthdays together. We both turned 35 years old in the beginning of August. Her birthday is just a few days before mine. We celebrated by going to a lake and having lunch outside. I ha...
搜索 复制 Grammar and Clarity: Abstract Subjects Imagine you are giving a presentation or writing a letter. You have done your research and organized your main points. You have checked your grammar and vocabulary to make sure everything is correc...
搜索 复制 Making Polite Requests in Email, Part 2 In this week's Everyday Grammar report, we will continue telling about how to communicate politely in emails. Murat, a reader of our website, asked if we could talk about how to open and close our...
