Playlist Update (March 3-9, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
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To My Facebook Friends and Fans,
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
PLAYLIST FOR MARCH 3 - 9, 2017:
(Latest down to earlier postings)
1. “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6827.0) (March 9)
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2. “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6176.0) (March 8 )
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3. “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.0) (March 6)
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4. “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0) (March 6)
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5. “Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6825.0) (March 5)
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6. “There’s more than meets the eye in media’s odd use of ‘concerning’” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1356.0) (March 4)
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7. “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than minefield of grievous errors” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6281.0) (March 4)
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8. “Whatever Became of ‘Fine!’, ‘You’re Welcome!’, and ‘Dead’?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2366.0) (March 4)
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9. “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6824.0) (March 3)
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10. “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6823.0) (March 2)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS:
1. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
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2. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=506.0)
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
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3. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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4. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6628.0)
(Posted July 11, 2016)
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5. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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6. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6822.0)