Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 23, 2023, 05:05:00 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 18 - 24, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 classic posts:
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Getting To Know English Better: “Helping intransitive verbs surmount their handicap” (March 16, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8780.0)
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2. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 23, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1105.0)
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3. Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “The grammar of antecedents in English” (March 22, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6846.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Simple random questions that need a lot of explaining to answer” (March 22, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7894.0)
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5. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 22, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1848.0)
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6. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 22, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7476.0)
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7. Time Out From English Grammar: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (March 21, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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8. Retrospective About a Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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10. Interesting Science Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 20, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6045.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 20, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7891.0)
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12. Getting to Know English Better: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8164.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question: “Attributes that make some words ‘shades of meaning’ of other words” (March 21, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7474.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question: “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech” (March 19, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7471.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8315.0)
(Originally posted January 8, 2021)
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. “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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6. 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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7. “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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8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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9. “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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10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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11. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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