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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on June 07, 2019, 09:38:12 AM

Title: Playlist Update (June 1 - 7, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on June 07, 2019, 09:38:12 AM

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 1 - 7, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “The virtue of postpositively positioned adjectives” (June 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7968.0)

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2. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (June 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7962.0)

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       Getting To Know English: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1”  (June 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7963.0)
 
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       Getting To Know English: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 2” (June 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7965.0)
  
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       Getting To Know English: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 1” (June 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7967.0)
  
        (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-of-place&time_image-1C.png)
    
       (This 9-part retrospective series is running daily from June 3 to 11, 2019)


3. You Asked Me This Question: “‘All’ can actually mean ‘totality,’ ‘everything’ or even ‘nothing but’” (June 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7585.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/all_indefinite-pronoun-1M.png)
 

4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (June 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7583.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/split-infinitives_cliches-composite-1A.png)
 

5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Should writers finish their compositions first before editing?” (June 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6919.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/writingprocess_pencils-1A2.png)
 

6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Subject-verb agreement when using a noun phrase or gerund phrase” (June 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7580.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/noun-clause-or-noun-phrase_image-1A1.png)
 

7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (June 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7578.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/must&haveto_usage-1C.png)
 

8. Retrospective on a Wrong Environmental Thrust: “Wage war against water hyacinths, not against water lilies” (June 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1568.0)
 
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News Headlines That Went Awry” (June 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/funny-headlines_composite-1B1.png)
 

10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (June 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7577.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/future-tenses_flyingbooks-1C.png)
 

11. You Asked Me This Question: “The pivotal role of ‘each’ in establishing the number of things” (June 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7961.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/each-image4_composite-1A2.png)
 

12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7575.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/tense-usage_reported-speech-1A5.png)
 


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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/clifford&umbrella-girl_composite-1M2.png)

2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/TreeofKnowledge-M1.png)

3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)

4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)    

5. 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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)

6. “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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/RizalLoves-2C.jpg)

7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)

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8. “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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/PStar_Boobs-C.png)

9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
    (Posted December 30, 2016)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/translation_problems-2D.jpg)

10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
    (Posted October 27, 2016)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/liberty.png)


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