Updated Playlist (December 23 - 29, 2023) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

UPDATED PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 23 - 29, 2023 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 15 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:

1. Getting To Know English Better: “The historical, literary, and ‘eternal’ present tense”




2. You Asked Me This Question: “The perfect progressive tense takes its time’”




3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Should that sentence require the present tense or the past tense?”


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4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “About that tough subject-verb agreement question”

   


5. Students’ Sounding Board: “Tough questions about sentence structure and pronoun usage”




6. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause”




7. Notable Works by Our Very Own (A Retrospective): “Full-color, 176-page hardbound collector’s anthology on Jose Rizal launched”




8. Essay by Jose Carillo: “The Tree of Life”




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears”




10. Getting To Know English Better: “‘Now that’ can be used as a conjunction to mean ‘in view of the fact that’”




11. Reading in Language Retrospective: “A recovered ancient manuscript changes the course of human thought”




12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!”




13. Time Out From English Grammar:“Even before the Enlightenment, Shakespeare already embraced science in his plays”




14. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The language of literature and science”




15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Tagalog among top 5 most widely spoken non-English languages in the U.S. today”





SPECIAL BONUS YEAREND FEATURE:
Added December 31, 2023

Time Out From English Grammar: “The journalist  and the billionaire: Doing Elon Musk’s biography”

Click this link to earlier Playdate features!

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