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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 (Sept. 2 - 8, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings, latest down to earlier postings):
1. “Confusion over the use of ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’” (September 8, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7075.0)
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2. “Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1” (September 7, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7076.0)
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3. “A question on progressive tense usage about current events” (September 6, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7071.0)
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4. “The grammar of indirect questions” (September 6, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7072.0)
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5. “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (September 5, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)
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6. “Is the ‘zero-complement verb’ a bare infinitive or an intransitive verb?” (September 4, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7068.0)
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7. “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (September 3, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7067.0)
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8. “The gifted, highly prolific British sci-fi writer who pursued sex obsessively” (September 2, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1784.0)
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9. “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?" (September 2, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=907.0)
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10. “A bewildering encounter with an inverted sentence” (September 1, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7063.0)
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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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