PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 18 - 24, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 classic posts:
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:1. Getting To Know English Better: “Helping intransitive verbs surmount their handicap” (March 16, 2023)
2. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 23, 2023) 
3. Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “The grammar of antecedents in English” (March 22, 2023) 
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Simple random questions that need a lot of explaining to answer” (March 22, 2023) 
5. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 22, 2023) 
6. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 22, 2023)
7. Time Out From English Grammar: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (March 21, 2023) 
8. Retrospective About a Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2023) 
9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2023) 
10. Interesting Science Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 20, 2023) 
11. You Asked Me This Question: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 20, 2023)
12. Getting to Know English Better: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2023)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “Attributes that make some words ‘shades of meaning’ of other words” (March 21, 2023)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech” (March 19, 2023) 
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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