PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR OCTOBER 19 - 25, 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Using broader meaning and summary words” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9168.0)
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2. Use and Misuse: “Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8283.0)
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3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospectives: “A turgid mix of bureaucratese and legalese” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=790.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Inverted sentences have a subject-verb agreement peculiarity” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8299.0)
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5. Getting to Know English Better: “A full-dress review of reported or indirect speech” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7133.0)
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6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “When even the passive voice isn't enough” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=162.0)
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7. My Media English Watch: “When sunset comes and evening ends really depends on location” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2138.0)
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8. Students’ Sounding Board: “Distinguishing noun clauses from adjective clauses and adverb clauses” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2139.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 famous thoughts by astute minds” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1416.0)
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10. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The Ant and the Eagle--Rizal and Philippine Education,” essay by Forum Member Eduardo (Jay) Olaguer (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2093.0)
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11. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Flowers for the Living,” personal remembrance by Antonio C. Go, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8693.0)
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12. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” by Toby Lester (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2291.0)
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13. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7657.0)
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14. Advice and Dissent: “The Roman Empire was built on infrastructure awaiting a pandemic,” a review of Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8235.0)
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15. The Forum Lounge: “The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer,” personal essay by young novelist Nicole Chung in Esquire.com (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8792.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9169.0)
Visit Jose Carillo's Blogspot on the English Language (https://josecarillo.blogspot.com/)