PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 5 - 11, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings, 11 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years” - Part 11 (June 10, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “Aren’t English prepositions too difficult, confusing, and hard to learn?” (June 10, 2021)
3. Students’ Sounding Board: "Top Filipina science high graduate defies the odds and the pandemic's challenges" (June 8, 2021)
4. Disconcerting English Grammar Quirk: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (June 9, 2021)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (June 8, 2021)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Should writers finish their compositions first before editing?” (June 5, 2021)
7. Getting To Know English: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 8” (June 8, 2021)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest: "34 business jokes and quotes to perk up our dreary days" (June 5,2021)
9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Subject-verb agreement when using a noun phrase or gerund phrase” (June 5, 2021)
10. (Not) Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Do people travel ‘for work’ or ‘to work’?” (June 9, 2021)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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