Symbols of Easter Spring has begun in the northern half of the Earth. For Christians, a major springtime holiday is Easter. This year, Easter falls on March 31. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we learn how to talk about holidays and the foods, objec...
Talking about Your Dreams In an earlier Everyday Grammar, we talked about Fast Car, a song about young people who had dreams of making their lives better. Then, we asked our readers and listeners to tell us about their own dreams. In today's lesson,...
What Is Your Countrys National Dish? Consider a time when you sat down to share a dish with family or friends. What was the dish? Is the dish special in your country or area? In today's lesson, we will explore how to talk about foods. We will learn a...
Learn Indefinite Pronouns with 'Fast Car' On today's Everyday Grammar, we are going to look at things that are different from each other: in other words, contrasts. Let's start: At the 2024 Grammy awards, one performance got the attention of many dif...
Breaking the Rules with Miley Cyrus Flowers Every year, the Recording Academy in the United States gives awards to the performers and songwriters with the most outstanding achievements from the year before. The Academy calls those awards the Grammys....
What Is Popular in Different Countries? In a recent lesson, we asked our readers and listeners to write to us about what is popular in their country. In today's lesson, we will explore some of what was written to us. Our audience will be the guides o...
What Is Popular in Your Country? Think about something that your friends or people you know like. Can you bring an image to your mind? The image that you are thinking of can serve as a starting point for today's report: the word popular. In today's E...
Ways to Say 'Goodbye' It is never easy to say goodbye, but at least in English, we have many ways to do so. For my final Everyday Grammar, I want to share the many ways to say goodbye in English. There are polite or formal ways. There are also ways w...
A Trip Around the World Pack your bags, make sure your travel documents are in order. Today we are taking a trip around the world if only in our imagination. For this Everyday Grammar lesson, we will leave behind our grammar books. We will instead lo...
Population, Overpopulation, Underpopulation Imagine you want to talk about the people in your country or in the world. In other words, you want to talk about a population. How might you do so? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore the noun pop...
Language and Mental Health In recent years, more and more people have been talking about mental health. The pandemic made many people feel isolated or alone. The isolation caused some people to struggle more with their mental health. Different countr...
Personification, Adjectives in 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' Many Americans have returned to work or school as the holiday season comes to an end. Some traveled far to be with loved ones for Christmas and New Year's Day. Last month, we looked at the...
The Grammar of Share: Social, Economic Uses Consider a time when you heard or read news about business, investments, or politics. Now consider a happy time when you gathered with friends or family. You ate food, had something to drink, and perhaps sm...
