Playlist Update (August 17 - 23, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 17 - 23, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 new postings):

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

1. The Forum Lounge: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (August 22, 2019)


 

2. Getting to Know English Better: “Playing it by ear when to use a gerund or infinitive” (August 22, 2019)




3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 22, 2019)


 

4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The quixotic quest for good teachers” (August 21, 2019)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 21, 2019)


 

6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (August 21, 2019)


 

7. Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “A rule of thumb for the absurdly bloated genre of memoir writing” (August 21, 2019)
 

 

8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Things my English teacher never taught me” (August 20, 2019)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question: “Big confusion over the small word ‘to’” (August 20, 2019)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question: “Using some idiomatic variations of the preposition ‘about” (August 20, 2019)


 

11. A Media English Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?" (August 20, 2019)


 

12. Unusual Grammar For Mandated Outcomes: “Uses of the ‘is to +verb’/‘are to + verb’ structure” (August 19, 2019)


 

13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 19, 2019)


 

14. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in similar jeopardy” (August 19, 2019)


 

15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A father’s letter to his son’s teacher” (August 18, 2019)


 

16. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 18, 2019)




17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (August 18, 2019)


 
 
18. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 17, 2019)


 

19. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Some informal prescriptions for better writing in English” (August 17, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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