2011-01-27 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on expressing ability in the past.今天我們要跟大家談一談在過去表示能力的動詞

There are two ways of expressing ability in English. One, “c

2011-01-27 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the causative verbs “make”, “have” and “get”, and the verb “let”.今天我們要跟大家談一下幾個類似祈使的動詞

Let’s look at some e

2011-01-27 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the difference in meaning between “try to do something” and “try doing something”.

“try” plus an infinitive, that is, “to” plus

2011-01-26 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the difference in meaning between “stop doing something” and “stop to do something”.

“stop doing something” means not to do that

2011-01-26 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the difference in meaning between “remember doing something” and “remember to do something”.

Let’s take an example. What’s the di

2011-01-26 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the difference in meaning between “regret to do something” and “regret doing something”.

Let’s take an example. What’s the differ

2011-01-26 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the difference in meaning between “forget doing something” and “forget to do something”.

Let’s take an example. What’s the differ

2011-01-26 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on learning English. Today’s tip is on verbs which are followed by infinitives or gerunds.

Some verbs are followed by infinitives, such as “I plan to go”. “to go” is an i

2011-01-25 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the

pronunciation of the letter “t”.

Of course the letter “t” is usually pounced “t”. But you may have noticed

that in fl

2011-01-25 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on answering “Yes/No” questions correctly.

In English, “Yes” is always followed by affirmative statements. “No” is always followed

2011-01-25 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on when to stress auxiliary verbs.

Although auxiliary verbs are not usually stressed, when we want to strongly emphasize a verb, we stress

2011-01-25 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the intonation of tag questions.

Tag questions are used in two very different ways, and the difference depends on whether you use a ris

2011-01-25 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the intonation of questions.

Remember that intonation is the rising and falling of the pitch of your voice. So “she’s here.” is a st

2011-01-24 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on when to use pauses before adjective clauses.

Let’s take an example. In the sentence “My sister who lives in San Francisco is a doctor

2011-01-24 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on learning English. Today’s tip is on the importance of pausing to mark the boundary between phrases or thought groups.

In a previous tip, I mentioned how in long sentences,

2011-01-24 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on the use of pauses in English speech.

Although written English has spaces between every word, spoken English doesn’t have pauses betwee

2011-01-24 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on contrastive stress.

If you listen to previous daily tips, you will recall that content words, such as nouns, main verbs, adjectives and

2011-01-24 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on using the articles “a”, “an” and “the” correctly.

Every student of English has my sympathy in his struggles with the English arti

2011-01-23 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on learning English. Today’s tip is on using the articles “a” and “the” correctly.

More specifically, today’s tip is on the difference between using “a” or “an” befo

2011-01-23 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on using the English article “the” correctly.

The article “the” is most frequently used to refer to a previously mentioned object. Th

2011-01-23 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on word stress on sentences.

In general, it is true that content words are stressed whereas function words are not stressed. Content words

2011-01-23 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on using or omitting the English article “a” correctly.今天的主題是"a"這個冠詞的使用

There’s no single rule that explains how to choose

2011-01-23 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is to be aware of how some verbs in English, transitive verbs, require an object.

Not using an object after a transitive verb is a common mis

2011-01-22 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on sound linking.

When 2 identical or similar consonants are in a row, most sounds are not pronounced. For example, stop Peter. “stop” e

2011-01-22 所屬欄目:手把手教你學口語

Welcome to daily tips on learning English. Today’s tip is on sound linking.

Although in written English, there’re spaces between every word, in spoken English there’re almost never (1)pauses bet