Jose Carillo's English Forum
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(15 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7891.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Verbal fallacies nearer home” (March 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=215.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (March 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=923.0)
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4. Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “The grammar of antecedents in English” (March 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6846.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7476.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Attributes that make some words ‘shades of meaning’ of other words” (March 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7474.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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8. Retrospective About a Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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9. An Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 20, 2019)] (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6045.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech?” (March 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7471.0)
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11. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Cracking the human resource code and other workplace mantras” (March 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7887.0)
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12. Refresher on the Grammar of Comparatives: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (March 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6837.0)
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13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Puns to alleviate the pain of occupational dismissals” (March 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1391.0)
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14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (March 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
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15. Taking Up Again Some Interesting Grammar Basics: “Of numbers and numerals and the usage of ‘will’ and ‘would’” (March 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):
1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
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2. 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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3. “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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4. 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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5. “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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6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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7. “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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8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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9. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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