PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings, 10 classic 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: “Don’t get caught using wrong double negatives!” (April 30, 2020)
2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Why an object needn’t follow the verb ‘told’” (April 30, 2020)
3. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Frenzied arrival reporting, this time for the ASEAN Summit dignitaries” (April 29, 2020)
4. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A Filipino-Australian woman on helping people write and speak good English” (April 29, 2020)
5. Advice and Dissent: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific developments” (April 28, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Some informal prescriptions for better writing in English” (April 28, 2020)
7. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions” (April 27, 2020)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (April 27, 2020)
9. Use and Misuse: “The proper use of ‘taken care of’” (April 26, 2020)
10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What women and men should have and know by the time they’re 30” (April 25, 2020)
11. You Asked Me this Question Retrospective: “Using the form that combines prepositions with ‘a preposition + which’” (April 25, 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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