PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 12 - 18, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 Know English Better: “The language of science and literature” (November 17, 2022)
2. Truly Back to the Grammar Fundamentals: “Basic and advanced techniques for doing paragraph transitions” (November 17, 2022 )
3. Use and Misuse: “The backshifting rule on relative clauses” (November 15, 2022)
**Read the Forum’s 3-part “Full-dress review of reported or indirect speech”
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great importance of parallel construction in presenting ideas – Parts I-IV” (November 15, 2022 )
5. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “Is your ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (November 15, 2022 )
6. Retrospective - Notable Works By and About Our Very Own: “When books and life intersect” (November 8, 2022 )
7. Use and Misuse: Carillo Retrospective: “A style guide for writing in English” (November 12, 2022)
8. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Using synonyms to enliven prose” (November 13, 2022)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (November 13, 2022)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Rediscovering John Galsworthy” (November 16, 2022 )
11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: "To survive, democracy needs to find a way to break its confidence trap" (November 17, 2022 )
12. A Media Watch Retrospective: "Usage of the phrase ‘on the ground’ in official circles getting out of and" (November 17, 2022 )
13. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: "25 ludicrously funny analogies” (November 7, 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”[/b]
(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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