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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 26, 2019, 03:06:34 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 20 - 26, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 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 rightful place for a headline modifier” (July 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8005.0)
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2. Language Humor at its Finest: “44 actual misphrased statements from students' science exams” (July 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2312.0)
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3. Quick Explication Asked For A Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘none’ singular or plural?” in the Forum now! (July 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crimes” (July 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5367.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “An unnerving encounter with faulty adverb usage” (July 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7619.0)
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6. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Here are arguably the 100 funniest English words” (July 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6500.0)
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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?” (July 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=793.0)
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8. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (July 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Book on the sentence-writing craft draws mixed reviews from critics” (July 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1560.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6978.0)
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11. Puzzlers When Subject and Operative Verb Are At Odds: “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (July 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6534.0)
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12. Language Humor At Its Finest: "How to argue effectively and demolish your opponents" (July 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8003.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo: “When even the passive voice isn’t enough” (July 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=162.0)
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14. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page” (July 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6372.0)
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15. Students’ Sounding Board: “What’s the correct format for writing dates in scientific literature?” (July 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1711.0)
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16. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan’s “A Prayer to St. Jude” (July 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1210.0)
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17. Getting to Know English: “The grammar of indirect questions” (July 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7072.0)
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18. Badly Written, Badly Spoken English (?): “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (July 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6522.0)
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19. You Asked Me This Question: “Avoiding not only a redundancy but a multiple redundancy in the same breath” (July 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7859.0)
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20. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6398.0)
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21. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Can a modifier dangle legitimately under some circumstances - 2?” (July 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7616.0)
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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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