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2017-    : "English Plain and Simple" columns in The Manila Times

(This listing is in reverse chronological order, the latest first. To access and read a particular column, simply click the indicated link.)

December 28, 2017:
The seven uses of noun clauses - 3

December 21, 2017:
The seven uses of noun clauses - 2

December 14, 2017:
The seven uses of noun clauses - 1

December 7, 2017:
How noun clauses behave in a sentence

November 30, 2017:
Dealing with long, complicated noun phrases

November 23, 2017:
Getting to know the noun phrase better

November 16, 2017:
Harnessing parallelism for structural balance

November 9, 2017:
4 specific applications of the parallelism rules

November 2, 2017:
Sustaining parallel patterns all the way

October 27, 2017:
Correcting media’s improper uses of the conjunction “as”

October 19, 2017:
Parallelism as a mark of good writing

October 12, 2017:
The need to know the English idioms

October 5, 2017:
The nature of true English idioms

September 28, 2017:
Learning the English idioms

September 21, 2017:
Epilogue: Teaching our children to think logically

September 14, 2017:
Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 2

September 7, 2017:
Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1

August 31, 2017:
Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 4

August 24, 2017:
Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3

August 17, 2017:
Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 2

August 10, 2017:
Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 1

August 3, 2017:
Watching out against the material fallacies – 3

July 27, 2017:
Watching out against the material fallacies – 2

July 20, 2017:
Watching out against the material fallacies – 1

July 13, 2017:
The need for logical thinking in our everyday life

July 6, 2017:
The preposition as another type of functional connective - 5

June 29, 2017:
The preposition as another type of functional connective - 4

June 22, 2017:
The preposition as another type of functional connective - 3

June 15, 2017:
The preposition as another type of functional connective – 2

June 8, 2017:
The preposition as another type of functional connective - 1

June 1, 2017:
Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 2

May 25, 2017:
Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 1

May 18, 2017:
Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better

May 11, 2017:
Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions*

May 4, 2017:
Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs

April 27, 2017:
Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions (Print edition only)
 
April 20, 2017:
Getting reacquainted with the coordinating conjunctions (Print edition only)

April 13, 2017: Maundy Thursday (No issue)

April 6, 2017:
“Which should we master first, conjunctions or prepositions?” (Print edition only)

March 30, 2017:
The grammar of English conditional sentences (Print edition only)

March 23, 2017:
A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English (Print edition only)

March 16, 2017:
How to avoid stumbling when using the English comparatives (Print edition only)

March 9, 2017:
Grappling with the grammar of the indefinite pronouns (Print edition only)

March 2, 2017:
Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song (Print edition only)

February 23, 2017:
Why it’s easier to speak fluently in English than to write well in English (Print edition only)

February 16, 2017:
Choosing between a gerund phrase or infinitive phrase (Print edition only)

February 4, 2017:
Problems when constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences

January 28, 2017:
The correct, judicious forms of address in a bureaucracy

January 21, 2017:
What to do when a very long noun form is the subject of the sentence

January 14, 2017:
When is sentence inversion a matter of grammar or style?

January 7, 2017:
Looking back to the past 15 years that I’ve been writing this column



(2015-2016 columns in previous panel)
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