PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 11 - 17, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Do I ask ‘Have you had a look at the documents?’ or ‘Did you have a look at the documents?’?” (April 20, 2020)
2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Advice from a noted scientist to aspiring young scientists” (April 18, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Prepositions at work in literal prepositional phrases” (April 18, 2020)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (April 18, 2020)
5. My Thoughts Exactly: Tonybau’s “Lockdown: Before and After” (April 18, 2020)
6. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart” (April 18, 2020)
7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2020)
8. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2020)
9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable!’” (April 14, 2020)
10. Time Out From Grammar: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 14, 2020)
11. Getting to Know English: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2020)
12. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 3 (Prepositions of time and duration)” (April 11, 2020)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Holy Week: Simply a Matter of Faith” (April 11, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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