PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 18 - 24, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
23 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. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “The need for caution in asserting what’s good or bad English” (July 23, 2020)
2. Back To The English Grammar Basics: “Getting to know the noun phrase better” (July 24, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 23, 2020)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?” (July 24, 2020)
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Book on the sentence-writing craft draws mixed reviews from critics” (July 23, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Using the comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (July 23, 2020)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page (July 22, 2020)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo: “When even the passive voice isn’t enough” (July 22, 2020)
9. Take This With A Grain of Salt: “How to argue effectively and demolish your opponents” (July 22, 2020)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words in English” (July 21, 2020)
11. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan’s “A Prayer to St. Jude” (July 21, 2020)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 2020)
13. Getting to Know English: “The grammar of indirect questions” (July 21, 2020)
14. Students’ Sounding Board: “What’s the correct format for writing dates in scientific literature?” (July 21, 2020)
15. Saying Your Thoughts Exactly: Melvinhate’s “How Light Dawns on Us” (July 20, 2020)
16. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 1” (July 20, 2020)
17. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in media” (July 20, 2020)
18. Getting to Know English: “Can a modifier dangle legitimately under some circumstances - 2?” (July 20, 2020)
19. Getting To Know English: “The need for tense shifts in cases of clause dependency” (July 19, 2020)
20. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers” (July 19, 2020)
21. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Getting rid of wordy beginnings for our writing” (July 18, 2020)
22. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The craft of writing headlines and titles – 2” (July 18, 2020)
23. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (July 18, 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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