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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 23, 2019, 11:08:16 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 17 - 23, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
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For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. The Forum Lounge: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (August 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8031.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Better: “Playing it by ear when to use a gerund or infinitive” (August 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7039.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7656.0)
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4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The quixotic quest for good teachers” (August 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=120.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7038.0)
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6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (August 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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7. Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “A rule of thumb for the absurdly bloated genre of memoir writing” (August 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1247.0)
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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Things my English teacher never taught me” (August 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6740.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “Big confusion over the small word ‘to’” (August 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7650.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “Using some idiomatic variations of the preposition ‘about” (August 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7036.0)
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11. A Media English Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?" (August 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4947.0)
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12. Unusual Grammar For Mandated Outcomes: “Uses of the ‘is to +verb’/‘are to + verb’ structure” (August 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2449.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6920.0)
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14. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in similar jeopardy” (August 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A father’s letter to his son’s teacher” (August 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7.0)
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16. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7032.0)
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17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (August 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6814.0)
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18. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7652.0)
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19. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Some informal prescriptions for better writing in English” (August 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6031.0)
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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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