PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 15 - 21, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
18 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: “When can history be narrated in the present tense?” (August 20, 2020)
2. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 22, 2020)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The quixotic quest for good teachers” (August 22, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 21, 2020)
5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?” (August 21, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question: “Big confusion over the small word ‘to’” (August 21, 2020)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in similar jeopardy” (August 19, 2020)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 19, 2020)
9. Back to the Grammar Basics Retrospective: “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 18, 2020)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 18, 2020)
11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (August 18, 2020)
12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A father’s letter to his son’s teacher” (August 18, 2020)
13. Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 2” (August 16, 2020)
14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific news” (August 16, 2020)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Writing to get that job” (August 15, 2020)
16. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (August 15, 2020)
17. Getting to Know English Better: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (August 15, 2020)
18. Powerful Tool for Organizing and Clarifying Ideas: “Maintaining parallelism of long serial grammar elements” (August 15, 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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