PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JULY 27 - AUGUST 2, 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 Retrospective: “When educators befuddle with their English” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9102.0)
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2. Use and Misuse: “The need for tense shifts in cases of clause dependency” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6970.0)
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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. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “Logic and language” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=397.0)
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5. Getting to Know English: “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8649.0)
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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. Views and Commentaries: “The character gap between the educated and uneducated,” reflections by Maximo Tumbali, Forum member (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7809.0)
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8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Medjugorie, here they come,” by Fred Natividad, Forum contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=716.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6835.0)
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10. Advice and Dissent: “The Middle Ages weren’t just a time of long religious delirium and hysteria" (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2083.0)
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11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Reasons why people fail the bar exams — poor grammar, deficient writing skills,” by Gerry T. Galacio, Forum contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8200.0)
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12. Notable Works By Our Very Own Retrospective: “Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one,” by Raul S.Gonzalez, Forum contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=524.0)
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13. Readings in Language: “Bridging the disconnect between simplistic and real, live English” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6464.0)
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14. Time Out From English Grammar: “What do you do if Medusa gazes at you or Dracula bites your neck?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5686.0)
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15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A bold embodiment of what’s grand or fraudulent in American mass culture” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1170.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9094.0)
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