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2021: "English Plain and Simple" columns in The Manila Times
(This listing is in reverse chronological order, the latest first. To access and read a particular column, simply click the indicated link.)
November 25, 2021:
Parentheticals for spontaneity in our prose (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8488.0)
November 18, 2021:
Conditional sentences that don’t use “if” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8484.0)
November 11, 2021:
The grammar of “if”-conditional sentences (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8481.0)
November 4, 2021:
The perfect progressive tense takes its time (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8478.0)
October 28, 2021:
Timeline for the future perfect tense (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8471.0)
October 21, 2021:
Timeline for the past perfect tense (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8464.0)
October 14, 2021:
Timeline for the present perfect tense (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8462.0)
October 7, 2021:
Going back not only to the future perfect (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8449.0)
September 30, 2021:
Did the First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 3 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8458.0)
September 23, 2021:
Did the First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8453.0)
September 16, 2021:
Did the First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 1 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8451.0)
September 9, 2021:
How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 3 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8447.0)
September 2, 2021:
How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8441.0)
August 26, 2021:
How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 1 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8438.0)
August 19, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 21 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8436.0)
August 12, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 20 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8433.0)
August 5, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 19 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8430.0)
July 29, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 18 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8426.0)
July 22, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 17 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8420.0)
July 15, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 16 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8416.0)
July 8, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 15 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8412.0)
July 1, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 14 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8404.0)
June 24, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 13 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8404.0)
June 17, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 12 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8382.0)
June 10, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 11 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8382.0)
June 3, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 10 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8382.0)
May 27, 2021:
Pause in series
May 20, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 9 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8379.0)
May 13, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 8 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8374.0)
May 6, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 7 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8371.0)
April 29, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 6 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8364.0)
April 22, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 5 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8361.0)
April 15, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years –4 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8359.0)
April 8, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 3 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8357.0)
April 1, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8348.0)
March 25, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 1 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8346.0)
March 18, 2021:
A student’s travails in modular distance learning (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8348.0)
March 11, 2021:
After 500 years, will the true site of the first Holy Mass be affirmed at last? (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8343.0)
March 4, 2021:
The germ of a great idea remembered (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8338.0)
February 25, 2021:
Avoiding improper uses of the conjunction “as” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8334.0)
February 18, 2021:
When can history be told in the present tense? (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8328.0)
February 11, 2021:
The art of avoiding needless voice shifts (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8323.0)
February 4, 2021:
Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 3 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8323.0)
January 28, 2021:
Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8321.0)
January 21, 2021:
Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 1 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8319.0)
January 14, 2021:
Not all our assertions can be established truths (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8317.0)
January 7, 2021:
How inversion can clarify baffling sentences (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8313.0)
December 31, 2020:
Disrupting the declarative sentence pattern for emphasis (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8308.0)
December 24, 2020:
What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8304.0)
December 17, 2020:
What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 1 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8301.0)
December 10, 2020:
Inverted sentences have a subject-verb agreement peculiarity (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8299.0)
December 3, 2020:
Sequencing tenses in sentences with relative clauses (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8297.0)
November 26, 2020:
Aspiring writer in storm-ravaged town appeals for help (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8293.0)
November 19, 2020:
When notional agreement overrides grammatical agreement (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8290.0)
November 12, 2020:
Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? - II (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8288.0)
November 5, 2020:
Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? - I (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8283.0)
October 29, 2020:
Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8283.0)
October 22, 2020:
Proper punctuation is the mark of a good writer (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8281.0)
October 15, 2020:
Redundancies, imprecisions in mass media English (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8276.0)
October 8, 2020:
Is there such a thing as a complex-complex sentence? (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8275.0)
October 1, 2020:
Constructing the perfect tenses in the passive voice (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8273.0)
September 24, 2020:
A letter from a bereaved German widower (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8270.0)
September 17, 2020:
A curious encounter about the use of position titles (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8268.0)
September 10, 2020:
Make sure your endearment doesn’t bungle its comparative (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8265.0)
September 3, 2020:
How the English demonstrative pronouns work (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8263.0)
August 27, 2020:
How the English demonstrative pronouns work (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8260.0)
August 20, 2020:
When can history be narrated in the present tense? (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8258.0)
August 13, 2020:
Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8253.0)
August 6, 2020:
The need for caution in asserting what’s good or bad English (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8246.0)
July 30, 2020:
Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8243.0)
July 16, 2020:
Complications when using hyphenated possessives (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8243.0)
July 9, 2020:
When splitting infinitives becomes a must for clarity’s sake (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8241.0)
July 2, 2020:
“What” isn’t always singular when it leads off an assertion (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8239.0)
June 25, 2020:
Determiners as functional elements of sentence structure (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8236.0)
June 18, 2020:
Is it advisable to drop “that” from reported speech? (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8232.0)
June 11, 2020:
Play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerund (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8227.0)
June 4, 2020:
Why we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammar (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8210.0)
May 28, 2020:
How to deal with long, complicated noun phrases (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8205.0)
May 21, 2020:
How litotes and the double negative differ (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8197.0)
May 14, 2020:
Revisiting the “who”/“whom” grammar conundrum (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8195.0)
May 7, 2020:
“Are you using ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8192.0)
April 30, 2020:
“Don’t get caught using wrong double negatives!” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8190.0)
April 23, 2020:
“The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8187.0)
April 16, 2020:
“Have you had a look” or “Did you have a look?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8183.0)
April 9, 2020:
Using the right tense for reported speech (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8179.0)
April 2, 2020:
How “even though” and “even if” differ in sense (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8175.0)
March 26, 2020:
How English auxiliary verbs differ from linking verbs (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8168.0)
March 19, 2020:
How the English past imperfect tense works (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8164.0)
March 12, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 4 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8159.0)
March 5, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 3 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8157.0)
February 27, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8153.0)
February 20, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 1 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8150.0)
February 13, 2020:
Appositives for more engaging writing (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8147.0)
February 6, 2020:
Back to the perfect infinitive using modals (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8142.0)
January 31, 2020:
The maverick behavior of verbs in the subjunctive (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8139.0)
January 24, 2020:
“12 Selected Essays by Jose Carillo” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8135.0)
January 16, 2020:
“Bring” or “take” and “come” or “go”? (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8133.0)
January 9, 2020:
The perfect infinitive and its uses (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8128.0)
January 2, 2020:
The perfect gerund and its uses (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8122.0)