Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is troublesome contractions. Guest writer Bonnie Trenga writes, This episodes about contractions. Or would it be better to say, This episode is about contractions? While were in the neighborhood, well talk about some

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Many languages shorten words in everyday speech. In English, we shorten a lot of words. One way we do this is with contractions: two words joined with a special mark called an apostrophe. The apostrophe shows the reader where letters have been remove

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十)月

A man spoke frantically (疯狂地)into the phone, My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!Is this her first child? the doctor asked. No! the man shouted, This is her husband!

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

It's one thing to want to get fit, but it's a whole other thing to actually do it. Going from couch potato to enthusiastic exerciser takes some serious motivation and a fitness plan that's easy to follow 想要减肥是一回事,可真正采取行动

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Were all familiar with contractions. Plenty are signalled by an apostrophe and others dont hide their origins with any notable ingenuity such as Im, youre, theyll etc. But some everyday words have dispensed with markers of their shortenings, to the e

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Exercise 1-5: Four Main Reasons for Intonation Depending on the situation, a word may be stressed for any of the following reasons: New Information Opinion Contrast and the word Can't 1. New Information It sounds like rain. Rain is the new informatio

发表于:2019-02-27 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 美式英语正音训练