Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on December 04, 2020, 06:19:26 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 28 - December 4, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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: “Sequencing tenses in sentences with relative clauses” (December 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8297.0)
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2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Heated grammar dispute over the linking verb ‘is’” (November 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4124.0)
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3. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Baffling legal terminology in the impeachment process” (December 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2408.0)
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4. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing”(November 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Once upon a famous Pinoy dog’s life-saving heroism” (November 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5956.0)
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6. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (November 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6874.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7254.0)
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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The evil that ignorance and incompetence can do” (November 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6732.0)
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9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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10. Free Yardstick For Your English Proficiency: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=284.0)
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11. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Using the wrong words or plain clueless in geography” (November 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6618.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1335.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question: “Is ‘Philippines’ plural and what is its possessive form?” (November 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=78.0)
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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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