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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 20 - 26, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 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. My Media English Watch: “The rightful place for a headline modifier” (July 25, 2019)
2. Language Humor at its Finest: “44 actual misphrased statements from students' science exams” (July 25, 2019)
3. Quick Explication Asked For A Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘none’ singular or plural?” in the Forum now! (July 26, 2019)
4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crimes” (July 26, 2019)
5. You Asked Me This Question: “An unnerving encounter with faulty adverb usage” (July 26, 2019)
6. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Here are arguably the 100 funniest English words” (July 25, 2019)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?” (July 23, 2019)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (July 23, 2019)
9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Book on the sentence-writing craft draws mixed reviews from critics” (July 23, 2019)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 23, 2019)
11. Puzzlers When Subject and Operative Verb Are At Odds: “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (July 23, 2019)
12. Language Humor At Its Finest: "How to argue effectively and demolish your opponents" (July 23, 2019)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo: “When even the passive voice isn’t enough” (July 22, 2019)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page” (July 22, 2019)
15. Students’ Sounding Board: “What’s the correct format for writing dates in scientific literature?” (July 21, 2019)
16. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan’s “A Prayer to St. Jude” (July 21, 2019)
17. Getting to Know English: “The grammar of indirect questions” (July 21, 2019)
18. Badly Written, Badly Spoken English (?): “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (July 21, 2019)
19. You Asked Me This Question: “Avoiding not only a redundancy but a multiple redundancy in the same breath” (July 21, 2019)
20. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 2019)
21. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Can a modifier dangle legitimately under some circumstances - 2?” (July 20, 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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