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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 09, 2018, 05:15:16 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 3 - 9, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “How the grammar of active and passive voice sentences differs” (March 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7458.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6829.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7456.0)
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4. Retrospective on a Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 8, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7454.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7453.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question: “When English isn’t the English that we know” (March 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7452.0)
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8. When Songwriters Take Liberties with Language: “Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song” (March 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6825.0)
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9. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than minefield of grievous errors” (March 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6281.0)
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10. Getting To Know English Better: “A quick review in choosing and using modifiers” (March 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7450.0)
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11. A Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6824.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):
1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
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2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
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3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
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4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=506.0)
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6628.0)
(Posted July 11, 2016)
Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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8. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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