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Title: Playlist Update (May 30 - June 5, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on June 05, 2020, 05:52:49 PM

PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 30 - June 5, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 new postings, 10 classic 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 Retrospective: “Why we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammar” (June 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8210.0)

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2. Use and Misuse: “Subject-verb agreement when using a noun phrase or gerund phrase” (June 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7580.0)

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3. You Asked Me This Question: “Should writers finish their compositions first before editing?” (June 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6919.0)

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4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: Timely Reacquaintance with Connectives and Discourse Markers (June 1, 2020)

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   Part 1 - “Getting reacquainted with the coordinating conjunctions” (June 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8204.0)
  
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   Part 2 - “Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions” (June 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8206.0)
  
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   Part 3 - “Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs” (June 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8208.0)
  
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   Part 4 - “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (June 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8209.0)
  
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   Part 5 - “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 1” (June 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8212.0)
  
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5. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (June 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7578.0)

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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it true that English has no future tense” (June 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7577.0)

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7. Misdirected Environmental Campaign: “Wage war against water hyacinths, not against water lilies” (June 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1568.0)

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8. You Asked Me This Question: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7575.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/tense-for-reporting-verbs_chart-1A1.png)
 

9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News Headlines That Went Awry” (June 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)

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10. You Asked Me This Question: “The pivotal role of ‘each’ in establishing the number of things” (June 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7961.0)

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11. You Asked Me This Question: “How to deal with long, complicated noun phrases” (June 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8205.0)

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12. Essays by Joe Carillo: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 31, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)

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13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Developing the confidence to match ‘confident’ with the right preposition” (May 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7567.0)

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14. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Use of ‘hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (May 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7959.0)

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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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)

4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)    

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/translation_problems-2D.jpg)

10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
    (Posted October 27, 2016)

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