Playlist Update (March 24 - 30, 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 24 - 30, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “When an entire clause functions as a noun or adjective” (March 29, 2018)


 

2. A Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The grammar of English conditional sentences” (March 30, 2018)




3. A Use and Misuse Retrospective: “With regard to ‘with regards to’ or ‘as regards to’” (March 30, 2018)




4. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “23 stunning, magically beautiful sights from all over the world” (March 30, 2018)


 

5. Thorny Choice Between Two Prepositions of Place: “Are you correctly using ‘between’ and ‘among’?” (March 30, 2018)





6. Education and Teaching: “University programs should do more teaching of language and not just literature” (March 28, 2018)


  

7. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Information technology and social networks as catalysts for reform” (March 28, 2018)


 

8. A Holy Week Retrospective: “Simply a Matter of Faith” (March 28, 2018)


 

9. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Taking note of awful information gaffes and obese rhetoric” (March 27, 2018)


 

10. Advocacies: Antonio Calipjo Go’s blistering, no-holds barred “Critique of the DEC’s Grade 3 ‘Let’s Get Better in English’ Learning Material” (March 26, 2018)

Advocacy Update: Scanned problematic pages of the Grade 3 “Let’s Get Better in English” Learning Material (March 26, 2018)




11. On a Lark Before Your Holy Week Vacation: “Try checking how intelligent you really are” (March 26, 2018)


 

12. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Bridging the disconnect between simplistic and real, live English” (March 25, 2018)


 

13. A Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 24, 2018)


 

14. A Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 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)



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



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




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