Playlist Update (June 8 - 14, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 8 - 14, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):

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

1. You Asked Me This Question: “When is a parenthetical necessary in a sentence?” (June 13, 2014)


 

2. As We Mark Our 121st Independence Day: “Let’s be firm that the name ‘Philippines’ is a singular noun” (June 12, 2014)


 

3. Retrospective for Philippine Independence Day: Fred Natividad’s “My Two Love Stories” (June 12, 2014)




4. Retrospective for Philippine Independence Day: “Lost in Translation - 1 and 2” (June 12, 2014)




5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “When children define science in their own terms” (June 13, 2014)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the usage of modals” (June 13, 2014)


 

7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Top 10 Murphy’s Laws and Its 8 Corollaries” (June 13, 2014)


 

8. Getting to Know English: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas”—9th of 9-part series (June 11, 2019)


 

9. (Not) Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Do people travel ‘for work’ or ‘to work’?” (June 10, 2019)




10. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (June 10, 2019)




11. Getting To Know English: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 8”—8th of 9-part series (June 10, 2019)




12. Dealing with a Disconcerting English Grammar Quirk: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” in the Forum now! (June 9, 2019)


 

13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “We were sidewalk vendors, true, my eldest sister and I…” (June 9, 2019)


 

14. Getting To Know English: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 4” (June 8, 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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