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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 5 - 11, 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. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (October 10, 2019)
2. Getting to Know English Better: “The need to avoid mixed-case usage in English – Parts I, II, and III” (October 10, 2019)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (October 10, 2019)
4. Going Deeper Into Language: “The need to know the English idioms” (October 11, 2019)
5. Getting To Know English: “Never strand a direct object at the end of the main clause” (October 11, 2019)
6. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (October 9, 2019)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers” (October 9, 2019)
8. Use and Misuse: “Confusion over reported speech and stream of consciousness narrative” (October 9, 2019)
9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘that’ and ‘than that of’” (October 8, 2019)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Conversations: The reign of the dreadful clichés – 1” (October 8, 2019)
11. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a hard-headed businessman” (October 7, 2019)
12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book” (October 7, 2019)
13. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “59 very close encounters with the language barrier” (October 7, 2019)
14. Time Out From English Grammar: “‘Scoring’ with a mate can be so sordid and wasteful but necessary” (October 7, 2019)
15. Education and Teaching: “Experienced Filipino teachers hired to teach in U.S. high schools” (October 6, 2019)
16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrosepective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (October 6, 2019)
17. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 5, 2019)
18. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “In a divided and angry world, novelists can no longer afford to be apolitical” (October 6, 2019)
19. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A grammatically doubtful report about a drug mule’s execution” (October 5, 2019)
20. Readings in Language Retrospective: “People’s names form a veritable catalogue of very ancient ghosts” (October 5, 2019)
21. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “The nature of true English idioms” (October 5, 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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