Playlist Update (September 8 - 14, 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 (SEPTEMBER 8 - 14, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English: “How the noun clause, adjective clause, and adverb clause differ” (September 13, 2018)


 

2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 of the best British jokes” (September 14, 2018)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (September 13, 2018)


 

4. Getting to Know English: “Choosing the right words” (September 12, 2018)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question: “Phrases desirable and abstruse” (September 12, 2018)


 

6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The need to be grammatically correct in our English” (September 10, 2018)


 

7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (September 10, 2018)


 

8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “When children define science in their own terms” (September 9, 2018)


 

9. Use and Misuse: “Lost in Tagalog-English cross-translation” (September 9, 2018)


 

10. Grammar Sounding Board: “Confusion over the use of ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’” (September 9, 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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