Playlist Update (September 14 - 20, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 14 - 20, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new 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: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (September 19, 2019)


 

2. Going Deeper Into Language: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (September 19, 2019)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Words don’t come easy” (September 20, 2019)




4. Getting To Know English Better: “How to reduce adverb clauses to adverb phrases” (September 20, 2019)


 

5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A recurrent glaring grammar error on cable news TV” (September 19, 2019)




6. My Thoughts Exactly: MelvinHate's verse “A Thousand Droplets” (September 18, 2019)


 

7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (September 18, 2019)


 

8. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “When a word can either be a noun or an adjective” (September 18, 2019)


 

9. Just In Case You Didn’t Know Yet: “What happens when people don’t know enough to know they don’t know” (September 18, 2019)


 

10. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations” (September 17, 2019)




11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The heavy price of misplacing one's trust and confidence” (September 17, 2019)


 

12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “How today’s literary style was shaped by modernist approaches to rewriting” (September 17, 2019)


 

13. Basic But Rather Tough Grammar Puzzler: “The difference between nouns preceded by the article ‘a’ and by ‘the’” (September 14, 2019)


 

14. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How the noun clause, adjective clause, and adverb clause differ” (September 13, 2019)


 

15. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 of the Best British Jokes” (September 13, 2019)


 

16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great titles in the making” (September 13, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



10. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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