PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 15 - 21, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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 Written English Better: “Dealing with quotations and attributions – 2” (October 20, 2022)
2. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “In English, it’s the auxiliary or helping verb that takes the tense” (October 16, 2022)
3. Unified Approach to English Punctuation: “The parenthesis and its uses: the appositive phrase – Part I” (October 18, 2022 )
4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (October 17, 2022 )
5. Tough Question in Complex Sentence Construction: “Positioning pronouns in complex sentences largely a style decision” (October 16, 2022 )
6. You Asked Me This Question: “Redundancies, imprecisions in mass media English” (October 16, 2022 )
7. Getting To Know English Better: “Avoiding mixed-case usage in English - I, II, III” (October 16, 2022)
8. You Asked Me This Question: “Timeline for the present perfect tense” (October 16, 2022)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: U.S. Humorist Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (October 18, 2022)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “So which do we use: a gerund, a full infinitive, or a bare infinitive?” (October 20, 2022 )
11. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “The quiet, little pleasures of reading Bienvenido Santos” (October 18, 2022 )
12. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio's “A treasure trove of lessons in photojournalism and English proficiency” (October 20, 2022 )
13. Time Out From English Grammar: “Advice from a noted scientist to aspiring young scientists” (October 20, 2022 )
14. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Five dozen amusing job descriptions” (October 17, 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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