April 11, 2023
Dear Forum Member and Forum Reader,
We are delighted to let you know that the Forum’s April 2023 Edition is now online.
The Forum’s April reading package consists of these especially selected highly instructive grammar articles and very interesting general interest stories previously posted in the Forum:
1. You Asked Me This Question:
“The Very Strange Grammar of ‘Need’ as Modal Auxiliary”2. Students’ Sounding Board:
“Which is Correct and Why: ‘I Didn’t (See, Saw) Her’?”3. The Forum Lounge:
“Young Novelist on the Unbearable Costs of Her Becoming a Writer”4. Use and Misuse:
“Looking Back to the Pitfalls when Using Negative ‘Used To’ Sentences”5. Getting to Know English:
“A Bewildering Encounter with an Inverted Sentence”6. Language Humor at Its Finest:
“Some Great Anagrams that Poke Fun at their Subjects”7. Time Out From Grammar:
“Vengeful Writer-Editor Heaps Calumny in his 1849 Obit of Edgar Allan Poe”8. Advice and Dissent:
“Could an Algorithm Do a Better Job of Deciding What’s Best for You?”9. Your Thoughts Exactly:
Fred Natividad’s “Looking Back to that Final Autumn When We Were One as a Family in America”10. Essay by Jose Carillo:
“‘Like’ and ‘Such As’ are such Slippery Grammar Trippers”Click this link now to the
Forum Homepage (
http://josecarilloforum.com/) to read and enjoy all the articles in this package!
Sincerely yours,
Joe Carillo
https://josecarillo.blogspot.com/
