Playlist Update (May 5 - 11, 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 (MAY 5 - 11, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(8 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – II” (May 10, 2018)




2. A Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Getting rid of awkward beginnings” (May 11, 2018)




3. Rediscovering the Linking Verbs: “Verbs to tie up loose ends” (May 10, 2018)


 

4. Use and Misuse: “‘Just plug it!’ or ‘Just plug it in!’”? (May 10, 2018)


 

5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “53 Memorable Quotes from Famous Celebrities Over the Years” (May 8, 2018)


 

6. An English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Gobbledygook na Ingles at Tagalog” (“Inday ng Buhay Natin”) (May 7, 2018)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “The choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (May 6, 2018)



 
8. A Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Dealing wisely with negatives” (May 6, 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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