美语听力与发音技巧 listen 7

美语听力与发音技巧 第7期（冠词“a”） Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on using or omitting the English article “a” correctly. There’s no single rule

英语语法：226 Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Today's topic is capitalizing tricky nouns like Ground Zero, Internet, and Earth. The podcast edition of this article is sponsored by SleepPhones--pajamas for your ears. Get $5 off your order with the code grammar at http://www.sleepphones.com/gg . P

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on using or omitting the English article a correctly.今天的主题是a这个冠词的使用 Theres no single rule that explains how to choose whether you should use a, use the or not use any

英语听力：英语听力小技巧 12

12 不定冠词 a 的使用 cn.（countable nouns） VS un (uncountable nouns) 名词前用不定冠词，或定冠词，或都不用。一般而言，只有一个正确答案。A 用与不用，意思完全发生变化 Eg. She has long hair.（un.）

北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 25(3)-4

[00:00.00]How do you feel it will have changed? [00:01.87]Well, the English that's being [00:02.91]spoken internationally, [00:04.29]I think,for example, will have no longer,erm, [00:07.80]say British-based or American-based idiomatic [00:10.24]langu

英语入门对话：44 Count and Non-count Nouns

Non-count Nouns I'd like to buy some ____________. How much do you need? Let's see. Five ____s* should be enough. All right. Five____s of ________. Anything else? No, that will be all for today. *Use measure words with non-count nouns. For example: T

商务英语写作辅导：Give notice的用法

There are two ways of expressing a notice period, as follows: 通知期限的表达方式有以下两种： 1.Under Clause 4.2 one months notice is required in order to terminate the agreement. 根据条款4.2的规定，终止协议前须要有一个月

美式英语正音训练第29期:Exercise 1-35 Contrast of Compound Nouns

Intonation can indicate completely different meanings for otherwise similar words or phrases. For example, an English teacher teaches English, but an English teacher is from England; French class is where you study French, but French class is Gallic

词汇大师-- Advice Not 'Advices'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: A listener, Akbar Gandi in Iran, is asking for an explanation of countable and uncountable nouns and the difference between a name and a noun. RS: English teacher Lida Baker has t

英语语法：78 Pronouns and Antecedents

Pronouns and Their Antecedents Today were going to talk about pronouns that don't clearly match up with the nouns they are supposed to replace. Readers become unhappy when they have to guess what noun a writer is talking about, or readers may even ch

英语语法：217 When to Use Female Nouns

Todays topic is the use of feminine nouns such as actress and comedienne. These days, people often see such terms as sexist, but it's also common to hear at least some of them. So what exactly are the modern rules for using such terms? Actually, this

英语语法：108 When to Use Articles Before Nouns

Several listeners have written with questions on when to use the definite article the, the indefinite article a, or neither. For example, Tracy W. wrote, Which is correct: Thank you for taking time to review my application, or Thank you for taking th

英语语法：38 Collective Nouns

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is collective nouns, nouns that describe a group, such as family, orchestra, and board. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, There are around 200 collective nouns in the English language (1). Sometimes they take a singul

英文笑话：Nouns 名词

Teacher: A noun is the name of a person or thing. Now, who can give me a noun? First boy: A cow. Teacher: Very good. Another noun? Second boy: Another cow. 教师：名词就是一个人或一种物的名称。现在谁能给我举出一个名词？ 第一个男孩：一头奶牛。 教师：

商务英语邮件范文：damages原来不是damage的复数

Remember that damages is not the plural of damage, but actually has a different meaning. 记住：damages不是damage的复数形式，damages有其他的含义。 Damage means loss or injury to a person or property. It is an uncountable singular nou

英语语法：37 Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is capitalizing tricky nouns like Ground Zero, Internet, and Earth. Quite a few people have asked me whether they should capitalize the words Internet, Web, and website, including Chris from Olney, Maryland; Matt from

Compound Nouns: Putting Words Together

What do these five words have in common: hotdog, fireworks, well-being, waistline, sunset and ice cream? They could all describe a fun holiday celebration. For example: My holiday was wonderful! I went to a friends party and we laughed, ate and had a

【简明语法】1. 名词

名词可以分为专有名词（ Proper Nouns ）和普通名词 (Common Nouns) ，专有名词是某个（些）人，地方，机构等专有的名称，如 Beijing ， China 等。普通名词是一

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-08-07

1.The FBI has released documents saying Army scientist Bruce Ivins had custody of anthrax spores identical to those that killed five and sickened at least 17 others in 2001.The FBI also says Ivins worked unusually late lab work hours around the time

新西兰英语 517 Voting in the election

Only 73% of registered voters chose to vote on Saturday. This is the lowest percentage since 1887. 3,053,705 people are registered to vote but only 2.2m people voted. Although it is too early to know all the details, it seems that young people are no