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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 25, 2019, 05:09:01 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 19 - 25, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English Better: “How the three kinds of objects work in English grammar” (January 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7832.0)
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2. A Not-For-Lawyers Only Retrospective: Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (January 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5975.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (January 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1042.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “The form and usage of the perfect infinitive and the perfect gerund” (January 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7833.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “How gerund phrases work” (January 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7391.0)
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6. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6774.0)
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7. Lest This Added Grammar Refresher Be Overlooked: “Departures from the rules for tag questions” (January 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6772.0)
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8. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “How ‘right of reply’ differs from ‘right to reply’” (January 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7388.0)
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9. A Grammar Refresher You Just Might Need: “Saying our tag questions right” (January 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6769.0)
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10. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The pitfalls in constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences” (January 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7387.0)
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11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (January 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6570.0)
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12. Language Humor at its Finest: "A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings" (January 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7829.0)
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13. A Grammar Refresher You Might Need At This Time: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6767.0)
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14. Lesson in Creating an Absolute Phrase as Modifier: “When a modifying phrase must drop its verb to work properly” (January 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6765.0)
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15. Jaw-dropper Grammar Misuse That You Might Have Missed: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage” (January 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6762.0)
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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)
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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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