Playlist Update (April 22 - 28, 2023) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 22 - 28, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 classic posts)
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 empathic forms and inverted sentences” (April 27, 2023)


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2. Get a Better Handle of the English Modals: “How to confidently use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (April 26, 2023)




3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The proper use of ‘taken care of” (April 26, 2023)   




4. Classic Advice To Young Adults: “What women and men should have and know by the time they’re 30” (April 26, 2023)   




5. You Asked Me This Question: “Prepositions at work in prepositional idioms” (April 26, 2023)   




6. Personal Reflections: “Dying to Live” by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor (April 25, 2023)




7. Getting To Know English Better: “The specific timelines for the perfect tenses – 2” (April 25, 2023)   




8. Going Deeper Into Language: “Teaching our children to think logically” (April 23, 2023)   




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “26 funny sayings & witty puns” (April 26, 2023)   




10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Avoid the embarrassing pitfall of misusing certain English words” (April 23, 2023)   




11. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Why does the word ‘gratuitous’ have two contradictory senses?” (April 23, 2023)   




12. Essays by Jose Carillo “Misuse of ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ punctures many a writer’s command of English” (April 22, 2023)   




13. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (April 22, 2023)




14. You Asked Me This Question: “How do present simple sentences differ from present continuous sentences?” (April 22, 2023)






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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