PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JUNE 15- 21, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY
Simply click the web links to the 15 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:
1. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9062.0)
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2. Students’ Sounding Board: “Positioning pronouns in complex sentences largely a style decision" (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2152.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “Making sense of abstruse legalese” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8341.0)
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4. Use and Misuse: “A wide-raging potpourri of bad English aired in the Forum 15 years ago” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=991.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “A grammar conversation on parenthetical usage” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=914.0)
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6. My Media English Watch: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6874.0)
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7. Getting to Know English: “When it is desirable to position adjectives postpositively” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6775.0)
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8. Essay by Jose A.Carillo “Like” and “such as” are such slippery grammar trippers” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=310.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “25 ludicrously funny analogies” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1213.0)
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10. Views and Commentaries: “The character gap between the educated and uneducated” by Maximo Tumbali, Forum Member (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7809.0)
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11. Advice and Dissent “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=950.0)
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12. Essays by Joe Carillo “Fused sentences are telltale signs of a writer’s inability to link ideas” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2362.0)
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13. Readings in Language: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0)
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14. Time Out From English Grammar: “Understanding the human mind and the roots of social behavior” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1493.0)
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15. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Phenomenal rock star Freddie Mercury sings "Barcelona" for the ages” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7319.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9060.0)
Visit Jose Carillo's Blogspot on the English Language (https://josecarillo.blogspot.com/)