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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 27 - August 2, 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when is a verb linking or an auxiliary?” (August 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8014.0)
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2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “78 fabulous advice from famous people” (August 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1319.0)
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3. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The four nominative functions of nouns” (August 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6993.0)
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4. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (July 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7655.0)
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5. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6991.0)
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6. For Uniform and Consistent English Usage: Gerry T. Galacio’s “A suggested style guide for all Philippine government offices” (July 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8013.0)
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7. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English” (July 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7761.0)
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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (July 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6425.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=923.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (July 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7625.0)
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11. Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Choosing between a descriptivist and prescriptivist dictionary” (July 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=186.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (July 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7768.0)
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13. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (July 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1572.0)
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14. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (July 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7623.0)
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15. How Good is Your English?: “How criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests can help improve your English” (July 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=422.0)
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16. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book”’ (July 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1719.0)
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17. Advice and Dissent: “Using computers to develop policy options for a healthier, happier world” (July 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7621.0)
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18. Back to the Very Basics of English Grammar: “Should verbs always be modified by adverbs ending in ‘-ly’?” (July 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6987.0)
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19. Advice and Dissent: “What could happen if a Filipina nurse overseas doesn’t speak English well enough” (July 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8010.0)
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20. Time Out From English Grammar: “South Korean YouTuber, just 6, buys $8-million property using her toy review channel earnings” (July 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8009.0)
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21. Essays by Jose Carillo: “The wisdom of routinely avoiding anticipatory ‘there is’/‘there are’ clauses” (July 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1734.0)
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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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