Playlist Update (August 25 - 31, 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 (AUGUST 25 - 31, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Better: “Inverted sentences as transitional devices”  (August 30, 2018)


 

2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 4” (August 31, 2018)


 

3. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The pressing need to curb religious rhetoric that breeds fanaticism” (August 30, 2018)


 

4. A Silent Fire Retrospective: “Split on infinitives” (August 30, 2018)


 

5. Time Out From English Grammar: “Likely a high-class prostitute was ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’” (August 30, 2018)


 

6. How English and Science Savvy Are You? “44 actual misphrased statements from student science exams” (August 29, 2018)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “Can both adverbs and adjectives modify gerund phrases?” (August 28, 2018)


 

8. A Silent Fire Retrospective: “Giving justice to J.R.R. Tolkien” (August 28, 2018)


 

9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 puns on the job” (August 27, 2018)


 

10. Use and Misuse: “Rich vocabulary, poor spelling” (August 27, 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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