Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. That sure was a mouthful, and it illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us take a break from serious grammar and instead delve into the world of comedysome intentional, some not. Groucho Marx said it best: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. H

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

One of the world's most amazing migration is about to begin in earnest: 300 million monarch butterflies spread across North America are about to converge on small forests in the mounts of Mexico. This year, the butterflies have an unusual company as

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2005年NPR美国国家公共电台

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist who likes to explore private, secret lives. His characters are often gay men, sometimes living in an earlier era when they wouldn't use the word gay to describe themselves. Hollinghurst won

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China has long depended on coal-burning power plants to fuel its explosive growth over the past three decades. As a result, air pollution has risen to alarming levels in central and eastern regions. Policymakers have been working hard to shift the co

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is misplaced modifiers. Of all the writing errors you can make, misplaced modifiers are among the most likely to confuse your readers, but they're also kind of fun because misplaced modifiers can give your sentences s

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl