PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 19 - 25, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 11 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Getting To Write English Better: “Avoiding needless repetition to sustain audience interest” (March 24, 2022)
2. Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “The grammar of antecedents in English” (March 22, 2022)
3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 22, 2022)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Attributes that make some words ‘shades of meaning’ of other words” (March 21, 2022)
5. Time Out from English Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 22, 2022)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Verbal fallacies nearer home” (March 21, 2022)
7. You Asked Me This Question: “Why do many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (March 21, 2022)
8. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2022)
9. A Gem of a Writing Guide—A Retrospective: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2022)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 20, 2022)
11. Getting To Know English Better: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2022)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech” (March 19, 2022)
13. Reflections for this Lenten Season: “The Tree of Life” (March 19, 2022)
14. Refresher on the Grammar of Comparatives: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (March 19, 2022)
15. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Cracking the human resource code and other workplace mantras” (March 19, 2022)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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