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Title: Playlist Update (June 6 - 12, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on June 11, 2020, 07:09:48 PM

PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 6 - 12, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “Play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerund” (June 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8227.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/gerunds-versus-infinitives_comparative-charts-1A.png)

 
2. As We Mark Our 122nd Independence Day: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (June 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6874.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/philippine-flag-and-map_composite-1A5.png)
 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Top 10 Murphy’s Laws and Its 8 Corollaries” (June 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1522.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/donkey-up-in-the-air_photo-1A1.png)


4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: Timely Reacquaintance with Connectives and Discourse Markers (June 1 - 12, 2020)

         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/connectives_schematic-illustration-1A5.png)

     Part 6 - “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas - 2” (June 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8215.0)
  
         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/conjunctions_three-types-1A1.png)
  

     Part 7 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 1” (June 7, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8220.0)
  
         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-vs-conjunctions_typewriter-1B6.png)
    

     Part 8 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 2” (June 8, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8221.0)
  
        (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-of-place&time_image-1D1.png)
        

     Part 9 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 3” (June 9, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8222.0)
  
         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-of-motion-and-direction-1A1.png)
        
     Part 10 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 4” (June 10, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8222.0)  
  
         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-for-timekeeping-1A1.png)
          

     Part 11 - “The preposition as another type of functional connective - 5” (June 11, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8226.0)
  
         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-for-establishing-logic-1A1.png)
          

     Part 12 - “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas" (June 12, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8229.0)
        
         (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/discourse-markers_colored-list-1A7.png)
        

5. (Not) Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Do people travel ‘for work’ or ‘to work’?” (June 10, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7975.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/travel-a-lot_usage-choices-1A1.png)
  

6. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (June 10, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7589.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/each_composite-4times-1A1.png)
 

7. Dealing with a Disconcerting Quirk of English Grammar: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (June 10, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6922.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/full-infinitive-vs-bare-infinitive-1A1.png)
 

8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (June 8, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6425.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/titanic-sinking_image-1C1.png)


9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “‘All’ can actually mean ‘totality,’ ‘everything’ or even ‘nothing but’” (June 7, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7585.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/all-as-pronoun&as-adjective-1A1.png)
 

10. Advice and Dissent: “The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance” (June 6, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8219.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/renaissance_warfare-1A1.png)


11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (June 6, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7583.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/splitting-infinitives_stylistically-1A1.png)
 

12. You Asked Me This Question: “The virtue of postpositively positioned adjectives” (June 6, 2010) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7968.0)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/postpositive-adjectives_examples-1A1.png)
 


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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/clifford&umbrella-girl_composite-1M2.png)

2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/TreeofKnowledge-M1.png)

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/RizalLoves-2C.jpg)

7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/PopeJohnPaul_Manila-5D.jpg)

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/PStar_Boobs-C.png)

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/liberty.png)


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