PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 19 - 25, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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: “Constructing the perfect tenses in the passive voice” (October 1, 2020)
2. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (October 3, 2020)
3. Language Humor at its Finest: “30 Funny English Signs from All Over the World” (October 2, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (October 2, 2020)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great gobbledygook-generating machine” (October 2, 2020)
6. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Humor from U.S.-based Fred Natividad: ‘Medjugorie, Here They Come!’” (October 2, 2020)
7. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Excessive negation and its dangers” (October 1, 2020)
8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (October 1, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The correct sequence of tenses for complex sentences” (September 30, 2020)
10. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage” (September 30, 2020)
11. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 Corollaries of Murphy’s Law in the World of Work” (September 30, 2020)
12. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (September 29, 2020)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (September 29, 2020)
14. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 1” (September 27, 2020)
15. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Forming negative sentences correctly” (September 27, 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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