PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 25 - 31, 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. Readings in Language: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin” (July 30, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Precisely when is a verb linking or an auxiliary?” (July 31, 2020)
3. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (July 31, 2020)
4. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2020)
5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English” (July 31, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (July 30, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2020)
8. How Good is Your English? “How criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests can help improve your English” (July 30, 2020)
9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (July 30, 2020)
10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Using computers to develop religion policy options for a healthier, happier world” (July 28, 2020)
11. Readings in Language: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says 2011 book’” (July 28, 2020)
12. Time Out From English Grammar: “South Korean YouTuber, just 6, buys $8-million property using her toy review channel earnings” (July 27, 2020)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The wisdom of routinely avoiding anticipatory ‘there is’/‘there are’ clauses” (July 27, 2020)
14. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime” (July 26, 2020)
15. Language Humor at its Finest: “44 actual misphrased statements from students' science exams” (July 26, 2020)
16. Quick Explication For A Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘none’ singular or plural?” (July 26, 2020)
17. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Here are arguably the 100 funniest English words” (July 25, 2020)
18. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The rightful place for a headline modifier” (July 25, 2020)
19. Enduring Non-Grammar Classic in the Forum: “Things My Mother Taught Me” (July 25, 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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