PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 21 - 27, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(23 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. Getting To Know English Better: “How English auxiliary verbs differ from linking verbs” (March 26, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (March 26, 2020)
3. On a Lark While on Covid-19 Self-Isolation: “Find out how intelligent you really are” (March 26, 2020)
4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “News Headlines that Went Awry” (March 27, 2020)
5. You Asked Me This Question: “The excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentence” (March 27, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Meditation on Our Digitized World: ‘The Tree of Life’” (March 26, 2020)
7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Taking note of awful information gaffes and obese rhetoric” (March 27, 2020)
8. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 frank and not so humorous quotes about real life that should give us pause” (March 26, 2020)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (March 26, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question: “Puzzling over the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2020)
11. Language Humor at its Finest: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (March 25, 2020)
12. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 25, 2020)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (March 24, 2020)
14. English Grammar Basics Refresher: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 2020)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of' usage” (March 24, 2020)
16. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Women…as explained by engineers” (March 24, 2020)
17. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Giving a Touch of Authority to Our Prose” (March 23, 2020)
18. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 23, 2020)
19. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding sexism in our English” (March 23, 2020)
20. Cautionary for Prospective Memoirists: “A rule of thumb for the absurdly bloated genre of memoir writing” (March 23, 2020)
21. Time Out from English Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 22, 2020)
22. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Verbal fallacies nearer home” (March 21, 2020)
23. You Asked Me This Question: “Why do many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (March 21, 2020)
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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