PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 3 - 9, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 disputable validity of some ‘used to + verb’ usage” (June 8, 2023)
2. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘than of’ and ‘than that of’” (June 8, 2023)
3. “The virtue of postpositively positioned adjectives” (June 6, 2023)
4. “The strength of materials and the people’s folly” (June 8, 2023)
5. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Part 6 - Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 2” (June 6, 2023)
6. Getting to Know English Better: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 1” (June 6, 2023)
7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: A review of Catherine Fletcher’s “The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance” (June 6, 2023)
8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (June 6, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Just playing with words today for the sheer fun of doing it" (June 6, 2023) 
10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Five ostensibly factual expressions we need to take with a grain of salt” (June 3, 2023) 
11. Getting To Know English Better: “An absolute phrase modifies the main clause entirely” (June 2, 2023) 
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 3, 2023) 
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the trail of serendipity” (June 3, 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. “Waltzing on the Web” (Originally posted June 8, 2023)
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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