Playlist Update (July 14 - 20, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 14 - 20, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “Can a modifier dangle legitimately under some circumstances - 2?” (July 19, 2018)


 

2. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “11 delectable quotes on breasts” (July 20, 2018)


 

3. Getting Into Logic And Critical Thinking - A Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 1” (July 20, 2018)


 

4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in media” (July 20, 2018)


 

5. Getting to Know English Grammar Better: “The need for tense shifts in cases of clause dependency” (July 19, 2018)




6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Getting rid of wordy beginnings for our writing” (July 18, 2018)


 

7. Time Out From English Grammar: “Even before the Enlightenment, Shakespeare already embraced science in his plays” (July 18, 2018)


 

8. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “‘That’ and its many grammatical uses” (July 17, 2018)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When people ask a question within a question” (July 17, 2018)




10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What’s the difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’?” (July 16, 2018)


 

11. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (July 15, 2018)


 

12. Back To The Grammar Basics: “When an entire clause functions as a noun or adjective” (July 14, 2018)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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