Playlist Update for March 16 - 22, 2024 of the Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 16 - 22, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 15 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:

1. Getting To Know English: “Keeping English prose trim and slim”


                                         
                                     
2. Use and Misuse: "Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive”




3. You Asked Me This Question: "The strange grammar of 'need' as modal auxiliary”




4. Getting to Know English Better: “Playing it by ear when to use a gerund or infinitive"




5. Students’ Sounding Board: “Differentiating the use of 'than' and 'than that of'"




6. Getting to Know English Better: “When even the passive voice won’t suffice”




7. A Holy Week Retrospective: “A matter of faith” by Jose A.Carillo




8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: "The facts make it physically impossible for Limasawa to be Mazzaua"


The 1521 map Pigafetta drew of Mazaua and his own sketch of the island as site of the first Holy Mass


9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times”




10. Readings in Language: "Self-taught scholar-researcher uncovers 'inspiration' for 11 Shakespeare plays”




11. Time Out From English Grammar: “A novelist in ill health races with time to finish a masterpiece”




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “What do you do if Medusa gazes at you or Dracula bites your neck?”




13. The Forum Lounge: “A wheelchair dancer lives up her dream” by Tonybau, Forum Contributor




14. The Forum Lounge: “Hidden miracles of the natural world,” a Louie Schwartzberg TED video presentation




15. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Growing up with my father" by Angel B. Casillan, Forum Contributor

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