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For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 22 - 28, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings, latest down to earlier postings):
1. “Should verbs always be modified by adverbs ending in ‘-ly’?” (July 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6987.0)
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2. “A recovered ancient manuscript changes the course of human thought” (July 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1821.0)
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3. “Watching out against the material fallacies – 2” (July 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6984.0)
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4. “Is ‘none’ singular or plural?” (July 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.0)
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5. “Things My Mother Taught Me” (July 25, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=733.0)
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6. “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech” (July 25, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6980.0)
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7. “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6978.0)
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8. “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (July 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6534.0)
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9. “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page” (July 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6372.0)
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10. “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6398.0)
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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” (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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