Playlist Update (July 28 - August 3, 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 (JULY 28 - AUGUST 3, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Better: “Precisely when is ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (August 2, 2018)


 

2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 3” (August 3, 2018)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “78 fabulous advice from famous people” (August 1, 2018)




4. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?” (August 1, 2018)


 

5. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The four nominative functions of nouns” (August 1, 2018)


 

6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (July 31, 2018)


 

7. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2018)


 

8. You Asked Me this Question: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (July 30, 2018)


 

9. A 2009 Provocative Forum Reading You Might Have Missed: “Choosing between a descriptivist and prescriptivist dictionary” (July 30, 2018)


 

10. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (July 29, 2018)


 

11. Advice and Dissent: “Using computers to develop policy options for a healthier, happier world” (July 28, 2018)




12. Back to the Very Basics of English Grammar: “Should verbs always be modified by adverbs ending in ‘-ly’?” (July 28, 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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