Playlist Update (Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 5, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 2” (October 4, 2015)


 

2. Readings in Language Retrospective: “People’s names form a veritable catalogue of very ancient ghosts” (October 4, 2015)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (October 4, 2018)


 

4. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “The nature of true English idioms” (October 5, 2015)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question: “Slogans are meant to ambush the mind into acquiescence”  (October 4, 2018)


 

6. Definitely Oldies But Still Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (October 3, 2018)


 

7. The Grammar of Writing About Things Told To Us: “A full-dress review of reported direct or indirect speech” (October 3, 2018)


 

8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The madcap names of the party-list groups” (October 3, 2018)




9. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (October 2, 2018)


 

10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great gobbledygook-generating machine” (October 2, 2018)


 

11. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘mine’ functions as pronoun, adjective, or determiner” (October 2, 2018)


 

12. A Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Excessive negation and its dangers” (October 1, 2018)


 

13. Getting to Know English: “The need for consistency in point of view” (September 30, 2018)


 


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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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