February 2024 roundup of 12 major perplexing English grammar aspects

[Joe Carillo]

February 12, 2024

Dear Forum Member and Friend,

For its regular monthly edition this February, Jose Carillo's English Forum presents a roundup of 12 of my major essays over the years on the most challenging aspects of English grammar. I strongly suggest that you review them thoroughly to fortify your proficiency in both written and spoken English.

The 12 essays that were posted in the Forum from 2003 onwards are as follows:

1. Dealing with those baffling subject-verb disagreements
2. When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement
3. Coping with the vexing inverted syntax of passive-voice sentences
4. Fused sentences indicate failure to grammatically link ideas
5. Common pitfalls when a pronoun and noun form a compound subject
6. Dealing with sentence constructions that seem to defy grammar rules
7. Shedding off the active-voice straitjacket from our written and spoken English
8. So which should we use: a gerund, a full infinitive, or a bare infinitive?
9. An effective tool for whittling down complex sentences into simple ones
10. Grappling with the grammar of the indefinite pronouns
11. How to avoid semantic bedlam in the usage of the word "only"
12. The pronoun “none” can mean either “not one” or “not any”

You will  be able to access all these 12 essays directly from the Homepage of Jose Carillo's English Forum. Simply click this link: https://josecarilloforum.com/.

Please don't hesitate to send to the Forum (jcarilloforum@gmail.com) comments, suggestions, or clarificatory questions regarding the grammar topics taken up in these essays. I will make every effort to answer them in the discussion board where each particular essay is posted.

With my best wishes,
Joe Carillo