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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 19, 2019, 09:54:10 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 13 - 19, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. My Media English Watch: “The craft of writing headlines and titles – 2” (July 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8001.0)
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2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (July 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=721.0)
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“My answers have been prayered.”
Ecstatic mother of 2010 bar exam passer (apocryphal remark, maybe)
3. Getting To Know English: “The need for tense shifts in cases of clause dependency” (July 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6970.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Even before the Enlightenment, Shakespeare already embraced science in his plays” (July 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7615.0)
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5. Use and Misuse of English: “Getting rid of wordy beginnings for our writing” (July 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6969.0)
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6. Fascinating English Grammar Basic: “‘That’ and its many grammatical uses” (July 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6967.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When people ask a question within a question” (July 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1588.0)
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8. Advice and Dissent Double Retrospective: “What women should have and know by the time they’re 30” and “Ten things a man should know or be able to do by the time he’s 30” (July 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2600.0)
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9. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Danglers, misplaced modifier, bad word choice spoil a fine media grammar day” (July 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=194.0)
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10. Enticing Morsel for (Maybe) Grammar Nazis: “An excruciatingly tough subject-verb agreement puzzler” (July 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=37.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What’s the difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’?” (July 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1911.0)
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12. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (July 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1599.0)
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13. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio's “Insights on provisions and mechanisms of the Family Code of the Philippines” (July 14, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7999.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How do we position pronouns properly in complex sentences?” (July 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7611.0)
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15. Time Out From English Grammar: “The immense power of the right habits to transform one’s life” (July 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2246.0)
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16. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Dictionary of performance evaluation comments” (July 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1055.0)
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17. Back To The Grammar Basics: “When an entire clause functions as a noun or adjective” (July 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6959.0)
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18. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Can a modifier dangle legitimately under some circumstances?” (July 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7609.0)
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19. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Scientist says 150 is the most number of friends one can comfortably have” (July 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1536.0)
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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)
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2. 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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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)
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4. “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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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)
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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)
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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)
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9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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