PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 28 - December 4, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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: “Sequencing tenses in sentences with relative clauses” (December 3, 2020)
2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Heated grammar dispute over the linking verb ‘is’” (November 26, 2020)
3. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Baffling legal terminology in the impeachment process” (December 1, 2020)
4. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing”(November 30, 2020)
5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Once upon a famous Pinoy dog’s life-saving heroism” (November 30, 2020)
6. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (November 29, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2020)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The evil that ignorance and incompetence can do” (November 29, 2020)
9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2020)
10. Free Yardstick For Your English Proficiency: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 28, 2020)
11. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Using the wrong words or plain clueless in geography” (November 28, 2020)
12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2020)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “Is ‘Philippines’ plural and what is its possessive form?” (November 28, 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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