Playlist Update (March 3 - 9, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 3 - 9, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “How the grammar of active and passive voice sentences differs” (March 9, 2018)


 

2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9, 2018)




3. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2018)


 

4. Retrospective on a Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 8, 2018)




5. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 7, 2018)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 6, 2018)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “When English isn’t the English that we know” (March 5, 2018)


 

8. When Songwriters Take Liberties with Language: “Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song” (March 5, 2018)


 

9. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than minefield of grievous errors” (March 4, 2018)


 

10. Getting To Know English Better: “A quick review in choosing and using modifiers” (March 4, 2018)


 

11. A Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2018)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)

Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook




7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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