Playlist Update (April 28 - May 4, 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 (APRIL 28 - MAY 4, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(8 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – I” (May 3, 2018)


 

2. Back to the Grammar Basics Retrospective: “Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs” (May 4, 2018)




3. Language Humor at its Finest: “Pun lover attempts to prove it’s possible to elevate puns into an art form” (May 4, 2018)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “Which construction is correct: ‘My brother and I…’ or ‘I and my brother…’?” (May 3, 2018)


 

5. Use and Misuse: “Why an object needn’t follow the verb ‘told’” (May 1, 2018)


 

6. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Frenzied arrival reporting, this time for the ASEAN Summit dignitaries” (April 29, 2018)


 

7. The Forum Lounge: “A Filipino-Australian woman on helping people write and speak good English” (April 29, 2018)


 

8. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “A crash course in politically correct English” (April 29, 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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