Playlist Update (June 1 - 7, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 1 - 7, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “The virtue of postpositively positioned adjectives” (June 6, 2019)


 

2. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (June 3, 2019)


 

       Getting To Know English: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1”  (June 4, 2019)
 
      
  
  
       Getting To Know English: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 2” (June 5, 2019)
  
      
    

       Getting To Know English: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 1” (June 6, 2019)
  
        
    
       (This 9-part retrospective series is running daily from June 3 to 11, 2019)


3. You Asked Me This Question: “‘All’ can actually mean ‘totality,’ ‘everything’ or even ‘nothing but’” (June 7, 2019)


 

4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (June 7, 2019)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Should writers finish their compositions first before editing?” (June 7, 2019)


 

6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Subject-verb agreement when using a noun phrase or gerund phrase” (June 5, 2019)


 

7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (June 4, 2019)


 

8. Retrospective on a Wrong Environmental Thrust: “Wage war against water hyacinths, not against water lilies” (June 3, 2019)
 



9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News Headlines That Went Awry” (June 3, 2019)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (June 3, 2019)


 

11. You Asked Me This Question: “The pivotal role of ‘each’ in establishing the number of things” (June 3, 2019)


 

12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 2, 2019)


 


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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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