Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 13, 2020, 04:51:23 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 4 - 10, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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: "The perfect infinitive and its uses" (January 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8128.0)
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2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: "The league of great literary authors is hardly a mutual admiration society (January 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6231.0)
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3. Readings in Language: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6329.0)
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4. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (January 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6428.0)
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5. An English Grammar Lesson You Might Have Missed: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English” (January 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6575.0)
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6. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misuse of the preposition-pronoun combination ‘of which’” (January 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1549.0)
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7. Quick Review of a Very Basic Grammar Lesson: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6525.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7349.0)
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9. Shoptalk Retrospective Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1616.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Doing battle with the most irritating phrases in English” (January 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=932.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Playing boldly with sentences” (January 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=228.0)
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12. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7814.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great titles in the making” (January 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0)
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14. Postscript To My Essay on Legal Jargon: Gerry T. Galacio's “A wealth of shared insights for avoiding legalese” (January 4, 2020) (http://tinyurl.com/rhrrvhs)
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15. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage" (January 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1884.0)
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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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