Playlist Update (July 21 - 27, 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 21 - 27, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “An unnerving encounter with faulty adverb usage” (July 26, 2018)


 

2. A Quick Explication of a Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘none’ singular or plural?” (July 26, 2018)


 

3. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime” (July 26, 2018)


 

4. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Here are arguably the 100 funniest English words” (July 25, 2018)


 

5. An Enduring Non-Grammar Classic in the Forum: “Things my mother taught me” (July 25, 2018)


 

6. Puzzlers When Subject and Operative Verb Are At Odds: “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (July 23, 2018)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 23, 2018)


 

8. Recommended Reading: “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page” (July 22, 2018)




9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic” (July 21, 2018)


 

10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 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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