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To My Facebook Friends and Fans,
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
Playlist Update (May 13 - 20, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
(Latest down to earlier postings)
1. “The Perils of Missing Periods or Forgetting Commas” (May 19) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6478.0)
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2. “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6901.0) (May 18)
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3. “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6345.0) (May 18)
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4. “‘Which,’ ‘that,’ ‘who’ and other grammar pitfalls” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6900.0) (May 17)
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5. “Don’t be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (http://restrictive&nonrestrictive_that&which-1M.jpg) (May 16)
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6. “Unsettling violations of the subject-verb agreement rule” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6898.0) (May 16)
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7. “The immense power of the right habits to transform one’s life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2246.0) (May 15)
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8. “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0) (May 15)
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9. “Rx for strays, danglers, and squinter” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6897.0) (May 14)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):
1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
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2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”[/size] (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
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3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
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4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=506.0)
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6628.0)
(Posted July 11, 2016)
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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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8. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6890.0)