Playlist Update (January 19 - 25, 2019) 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 (JANUARY 19 - 25, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Better: “How the three kinds of objects work in English grammar” (January 24, 2019)


 

2. A Not-For-Lawyers Only Retrospective: Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (January 24, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (January 24, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “The form and usage of the perfect infinitive and the perfect gerund” (January 24, 2019)


 

5. Getting To Know English Better: “How gerund phrases work” (January 24, 2019)


 

6. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2019)


 

7. Lest This Added Grammar Refresher Be Overlooked: “Departures from the rules for tag questions” (January 23, 2019)


 

8. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “How ‘right of reply’ differs from ‘right to reply’” (January 23, 2019)


 

9. A Grammar Refresher You Just Might Need: “Saying our tag questions right” (January 22, 2019)


 

10. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The pitfalls in constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences” (January 22, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (January 21, 2019)


 

12. Language Humor at its Finest: "A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings" (January 20, 2019)


 

13. A Grammar Refresher You Might Need At This Time: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 20, 2019)


 

14. Lesson in Creating an Absolute Phrase as Modifier: “When a modifying phrase must drop its verb to work properly” (January 20, 2019)


 

15. Jaw-dropper Grammar Misuse That You Might Have Missed: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage” (January 19, 2019)


 
 
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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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