In recent weeks, search terms related to European football have been popular on the internet.
On Monday, for example, Google Trends identified ‘Champions League' and ‘Champions League draw' as the top two search terms on its Daily Search Trends page.
Everyday Grammar
In many areas, people continued to search for information about their favorite football team. In Vietnam, for example, Arsenal was one of the top search terms.
In Egypt, the most popular search term was Real Madrid.
In the spirit of these trends, our Everyday Grammar program this week will explore grammar and football, a game known as soccer in the United States. Specifically, we will talk about how soccer can teach you important points about English.
#1 Sentence structure
First, short sentences about soccer can teach you about transitive verbs and an important English sentence pattern: Subject + Verb + Object.
The pattern often appears like this:
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