Playlist Update (May 25 - 31, 2019) 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 (MAY 25 - 31, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Use and Misuse: “Use of ‘hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (May 30, 2019)




2. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 31, 2019)


 

3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Developing the confidence to match ‘confident’ with the right preposition” (May 30, 2019)


 

4. Advice and Dissent: “To survive, democracy needs to find a way to break its confidence trap” (May 29, 2019)


 

5. Language Humor at its Finest: “A Great Stand-up Comic’s Thoughts About Life and Sundry Things” (May 27, 2019)


 

6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s foolhardy to stop learning English grammar just like that!” (May 31, 2019)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it grammatical to use ‘respective memorandum’ in court decisions?” (May 30, 2019)


 

8. Students’ Sounding Board: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense” (May 29, 2019)




9. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2019)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Unequal Englishes, Wronging English, Elitist English, Standard Philippine English” (May 27, 2019)


 

11. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (May 26, 2019)


 

12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (May 26, 2019)


 

13. You Asked Me This Question: “Why the word ‘bloom’ has no ‘s’ in ‘Plant a tree and see hope bloom’” (May 26, 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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