Playlist Update (October 13 - 19, 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 (OCTOBER 13 - 19, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Better: “A full-dress review of the verb types in English” (October 18, 2018)


 

2. Language Humor at its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (October 18, 2018)


 

3. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Writing to hook the reader—and talking to hook the voter” (October 18, 2018)


 

4. A Full-Dress Review of the English Prepositions - 2: “Specific rules for preposition usage”  (October 17, 2018)


 

5. Tough Question in Complex Sentence Construction: “Positioning pronouns in complex sentences largely a style decision” (October 16, 2018)




6. Language Humor at its Finest Encore: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (October 16, 2018)


 

7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A primer on political propaganda” (October 15, 2018)


 

8. A Full-Dress Review of the English Prepositions – 1: “The Prepositions Revisited” (October 15, 2018)


 

9. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Five dozen amusing job descriptions” (October 15, 2018)


 

10. Retrospective on the English Alphabet: “Why is the stand-alone letter ‘I’ always capitalized?” (October 15, 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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