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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 3 - 9, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. A Full-Dress Review of the Kinds of Verbs in English – 4: “How current linking verbs and resulting linking verbs work - 2” (November 8, 2018)


 

2. My Media English Watch Lookback: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage” (November 8, 2018)




3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News headlines that went awry” (November 7, 2018)


 

4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The linguistic distinction between ‘actress’ and ‘actor’ goes beyond sexism” (November 7, 2018)




5. Getting to Know English: “When the object of the verb is the doer itself” (November 6, 2018)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question: “Is ‘very’ such a useless word?” (November 5, 2018)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The proper tense to use when talking now about the past” (November 5, 2018)


 

8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “English grammar and usage: Defense and assault” (November 5, 2018)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A close encounter with wrong adverb usage” (November 5, 2018)


 

10. Forum Advocacies: “To improve the quality of our minds, we Filipinos must learn to think critically” (November 4, 2018)


 

11. A Language Reading You Might Have Missed: “Learning punctuation from usage rather than from school textbooks” (November 4, 2018)


 

12. Desperation as Determinant in Preposition Usage: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 4, 2018)


 

13. Use and Misuse: “When a comma is misused for linking two independent coordinate clauses” (November 3, 2018)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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