PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JULY 20 - 26, 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 Joe Carillo Retrospective: “A serious bad-grammar syndrome" (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9093.0)
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2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The problem with our English according to Jose Carillo" (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8917.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “Clarifying how the double possessive in English works” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8547.0)
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4. 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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5. Getting to Know English: “Is your 'were' in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8937.0)
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6. Students’ Sounding Board: “Dropping the introductory word 'that' in indirect speech” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6462.0)
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7. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Dying to Live,” reflections by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8803.0)
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8. Going Deeper Into Language: “A business professor’s recollection about American idioms,” by MBA professor Oscar P. Lagman, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7161.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7411.0)
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10. Advice and Dissent: “Grammar poll on a contentious subject-verb agreement disagreement” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=185.0)
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11. Time Out From English Grammar: “Bill Gates funds developer of feed additive that reduces cow burps and farts” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8747.0)
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12. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Non-historian explores the heart and soul of the modern Filipino” by Luis H. Francia, Filipino writer and crearive riing professor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=794.0)
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13. Readings in Language: A review of Ed Simon’s “In praise of the long, complicated sentence” in LitHub.com online magazine (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8797.0)
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14. The Forum Lounge: “The one single thing that brought them all to America,” a Facebook post by a female South Virtnamese expatriate to the United States (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8031.0)
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15. A Forum Lounge: Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web,” a personal essay by Jose A.Carillo (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6805.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9089.0)
Visit Jose Carillo's Blogspot on the English Language (https://josecarillo.blogspot.com/)