Pre-Listening Vocabulary gender-neutral: does not identify a person as being male or female personal pronoun: a word that is used to identify a specific person or thing awkward: uncomfortable propose: to make a recommendation fad: something that is p

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 趣谈英语

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is one versus you. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us determine the best way to talk in general terms about the average person. Bonnie says, If you want to talk about people in general, should you say, It

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to use the word myself. Misusing myself is definitely one of the top things people complain to me about. Here's an example: caller comment The caller is right; people seem to be so afraid to use the words me an

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

'They' Wins as Linguists Word of the Year From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The competition was more youthful, more hipster, more urban, even naughtier. But in the end, they won. The pronoun they won out as Word of the Year, vo

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(258) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Which Pronoun is Correct: I or Me? On March 5, Jazmine Hughes wrote in a New York Times blog, Recently, at an IRL party that is, a party that takes place in real life, as opposed to where I generally live, which is on the Internet a guest asked a fri

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(八)月

Yo! Grammar Girl here. I have grammar news about the word yo this week. Listen through to the end because YOU may be able to help a language researcher. The grammar news is that Dr. Elaine Stotko, from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins Univers

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl