PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 6 - 12, 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 Retrospective: “Play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerund” (June 11, 2020)
2. As We Mark Our 122nd Independence Day: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (June 12, 2020)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Top 10 Murphy’s Laws and Its 8 Corollaries” (June 11, 2020)
4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: Timely Reacquaintance with Connectives and Discourse Markers (June 1 - 12, 2020)
Part 6 - “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 2” (June 6, 2020)
Part 7 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 1” (June 7, 2010)
Part 8 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 2” (June 8, 2010)
Part 9 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 3” (June 9, 2010)
Part 10 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 4” (June 10, 2010)
Part 11 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 5” (June 11, 2010)
Part 12 - “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas" (June 12, 2010)
5. (Not) Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Do people travel ‘for work’ or ‘to work’?” (June 10, 2010)
6. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (June 10, 2010)
7. Dealing with a Disconcerting Quirk of English Grammar: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (June 10, 2010)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (June 8, 2010)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “‘All’ can actually mean ‘totality,’ ‘everything’ or even ‘nothing but’” (June 7, 2010)
10. Advice and Dissent: “The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance” (June 6, 2010)
11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (June 6, 2010)
12. You Asked Me This Question: “The virtue of postpositively positioned adjectives” (June 6, 2010)
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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