Playlist Update (May 19 - 25, 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 (MAY 19 - 25, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(7 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “A puzzling usage of ‘which’ to introduce a relative clause” (May 24, 2018)


 

2.  Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 25, 2018)


 

3. Again, Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1” (May 25, 2018)




4. You Asked Me This Question: “Why the word ‘bloom’ has no ‘s’ in ‘Plant a tree and see hope bloom’” (May 24, 2018)


 

5. Use and Misuse: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2018)


 

6. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Loving, at times kooky homage to a master English prose stylist” (May 23, 2018)


 

7. The Great Shift to Pragmatic Language: “Transitioning from academic to business English” (May 22, 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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