PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 7 - 13, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? – II” (November 12, 2020)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great importance of parallel construction in presenting ideas” (November 15, 2020)
3. Language Humor at its Finest: “Top 100 funniest one-liners” (November 15, 2020)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Rediscovering John Galsworthy” (November 16, 2020)
5. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “Winning the battle for people’s minds” (November 14, 2020)
6. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “A full-dress review of the kinds of verbs in English – 5” (November 14, 2020)
7. The Grammar of English Pronouns Revisited: “Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents” (November 14, 2020)
8. Getting To Know English Better: “Is your 'were' in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (November 14, 2020)
9. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Finding the diamond in a slush pile of unpublishable books” (November 14, 2020)
10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Charming take on writers as not-so-great conversationalists” (November 11, 2020)
11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A doubtful comparative-transition phrase” (November 11, 2020)
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Phenomenal rock star Freddie Mercury sings ‘Barcelona’ for the ages” (November 11, 2020)
13. Dealing With Annoying Grammar Errors (2nd of 14 parts): “The havoc that dangling modifiers do” (November 10, 2020)
14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Belief without evidence is always morally wrong” (November 10, 2020)
15. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The difference between elliptical sentences and elliptical clauses” (November 10, 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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