PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 11 - 17, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 new postings, 10 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Complications when using hyphenated possessives” (July 16, 2020)
2. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Danglers, misplaced modifier, bad word choice spoil a fine media grammar day” (July 16, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When people ask a question within a question” (July 17, 2020)
4. Fascinating English Grammar Basic: “‘That’ and its many grammatical uses” (July 17, 2020)
5. Advice and Dissent - Double Retrospective: “What women should have and know by the time they’re 30” and “Ten Things a Man Should Know or Be Able to Do by the Time He’s 30” (July 16, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What’s the difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’?” (July 16, 2020)
7. Enticing Morsel for (Maybe) Grammar Nazis: “An excruciatingly tough subject-verb agreement puzzler” (July 16, 2020)
8. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The need for logical thinking in our everyday life” (July 16, 2020)
9. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (July 15, 2020)
10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Gerry T. Galacio's “Insights on provisions and mechanisms of the Family Code of the Philippines” (July 14, 2020)
11. Back To English Grammar Basics: “When an entire clause functions as a noun or adjective” (July 14, 2020)
12. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Dictionary of performance evaluation comments” (July 13, 2020)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1055.0
13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The immense power of the right habits to transform one’s life” (July 13, 2020)
14. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “33 Modern English Essays” (July 12, 2020)
15. Time Out From English Grammar: “Scientist says 150 is the most number of friends one can comfortably have” (July 12, 2020)
16. The Hazards of Modifier Misplacement: “When ‘only’ goes haywire” (July 11, 2020)
17. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “33 Golden Nuggets of Inspiration” July 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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