PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 13 - 19, 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: “Is it advisable to drop ‘that’ from reported speech?” (June 18, 2020)
2. The Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “250 Guileless Questions That Can Make You Go ‘Hmmm…’” or “Aargh!” (June 16, 2020)
3. Knocking Off Repetitive Phrases Gracefully: “The virtue of elliptical constructions” (June 20, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When to use full infinitives, bare infinitives, or gerunds - 1” (June 19, 2020)
5. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “It’s time for the Filipino to make himself truly globally competitive” (June 19, 2020)
6. On the Eve of His 159th Birth Anniversary: “A Retrospective on Most Everything About Jose P. Rizal” (June 18, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentences” (June 18, 2020)
8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (June 20, 2020)
9. Historical Literary Curiosity You Might Have Missed: “When a novel gets published, expect some bruised egos” (June 18, 2020)
10. Notable Works By Our Very Own: A Retrospective: “Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one” (June 18, 2020)
11. The Wisdom of a Standard English Lexicon: “Looking More Closely at Our Dictionaries” (June 17, 2020)
12. You Asked Me This Question: “‘Freedom’ can be singular or plural depending on the intended sense” (June 14, 2020)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “Is there a fail-safe rule for using “fewer” or “less”? (June 14, 2020)
14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “When children define science in their own terms” (June 14, 2020)
15. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When is a parenthetical necessary in a sentence?” (June 14, 2020)
16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The power of wordplay” (June 13, 2020)
17. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the usage of modals” (June 13, 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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