Playlist Update (March 3-9, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on FacebookTo 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 FOR MARCH 3 - 9, 2017:(Latest down to earlier postings)
1. “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (March 9)
2. “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 8 )
3. “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in” (March 6)
4. “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (March 6)
5. “Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song” (March 5)
6. “There’s more than meets the eye in media’s odd use of ‘concerning’” (March 4)
7. “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than minefield of grievous errors” (March 4)
8. “Whatever Became of ‘Fine!’, ‘You’re Welcome!’, and ‘Dead’?” (March 4)
9. “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3)
10. “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 2)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS:1. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
2. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
3. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
4. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
5. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
6. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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