Playlist Update for March 30 - April 5, 2024 of the Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 30 - APRIL 5, 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. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “The importance of grammar-perfect English”




2. You Asked Me This Question: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?”



                                         
                                     
3. Use and Misuse: “The grammar of English conditional sentences”




4. Students’ Sounding Board: “How to use ‘to have been’ and ‘having been’”




5. Pervasive Prickly Problem With An Idiomatic Phrase: “With regard to ‘with regards to’ or ‘as regards to’”




6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page”




7. Time Out From English Grammar:  “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms”




8. You Asked Me This Question: “What does the term ‘Philippine area of responsibility’ mean?”





9. Language Humor at its Finest: “When children define science in their own terms”


There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth 
because of so much population stomping around up here these days.

10. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: "When even the passive voice isn't enough”




11. “Time Out From English Grammar: “The psychometric test that promised to be an ‘X-ray to the soul’”




12. Advice and Dissent: “Interpretive contests are essential in efforts to advance historical understanding"


BUST OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, 312 CE


13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well”




14. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “23 stunning, magically beautiful sights from all over the world”




15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A beauty and a love verboten” by Angel B. Casillan, Forum Contributor

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