PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 6 - 12, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
16 new postings, 11 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: “The art of avoiding needless voice shifts” (February 11, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Back to the perfect infinitive using modals” (February 6, 2021)
3. Refresher in Punctuating Amplifying Elements: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (February 9, 2021)
4. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (February 11, 2021)
5. Readings in Language: “Self-taught computer-savvy scholar uncovers ‘inspiration’ for 11 Shakespeare plays” (February 10, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 12, 2021)
7. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Awful, otherworldly use of the possessive form” (February 10, 2021)
8. Refresher in English Grammar Basics: “Phrasal verbs are phrases with a figurative meaning” (February 10, 2021)
9. Rendezvous with “Pun-ography”: “34 rollicking wordplays to perk up your day” (February 9, 2021)
10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime, study suggests” (February 8, 2021)
11. Getting To Know English Better: “The flexible positions of participial phrases” (February 8, 2021 )
12. You Asked Me This Question: “The thorny choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (February 7, 2021)
13. Time Out From English Grammar: “U.S. math professor stumbles on an ancient Babylonian trick that make solving quadratic equations much easier” (February 7, 2021)
14. Language Humor at Its Finest Retrospective: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (February 7, 2021)
15. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The need to teach our children to think logically” (February 5, 2021)
16. Going Way, Way Down Memory Lane: “Manila at the turn of the 20th Century” (February 11, 2021)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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