PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 30 - June 5, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 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 Retrospective: “Why we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammar” (June 4, 2020)
2. Use and Misuse: “Subject-verb agreement when using a noun phrase or gerund phrase” (June 5, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Should writers finish their compositions first before editing?” (June 5, 2020)
4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: Timely Reacquaintance with Connectives and Discourse Markers (June 1, 2020)
Part 1 - “Getting reacquainted with the coordinating conjunctions” (June 1, 2020)
Part 2 - “Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions” (June 2, 2020)
Part 3 - “Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs” (June 3, 2020)
Part 4 - “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (June 4, 2020)
Part 5 - “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 1” (June 5, 2020)
5. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (June 4, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it true that English has no future tense” (June 3, 2020)
7. Misdirected Environmental Campaign: “Wage war against water hyacinths, not against water lilies” (June 3, 2020)
8. You Asked Me This Question: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 2, 2020)
9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News Headlines That Went Awry” (June 2, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question: “The pivotal role of ‘each’ in establishing the number of things” (June 2, 2020)
11. You Asked Me This Question: “How to deal with long, complicated noun phrases” (June 1, 2020)
12. Essays by Joe Carillo: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 31, 2020)
13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Developing the confidence to match ‘confident’ with the right preposition” (May 30, 2020)
14. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Use of ‘hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (May 30, 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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