Playlist Update (Dec. 28, 2019 - Jan. 3, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 28, 2019 - JANUARY 3, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

1. You Asked Me This Question: “The perfect gerund and its uses” (January 2, 2010)


 

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking back to the past 15 years that I’ve been writing about English usage” (January 2, 2010)


 

3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The grievous moral error of belief with no supporting evidence” (January 3, 2010)


 

4. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January 3, 2010)


 

5. Time to Check If These Are Still True Today: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (January 3, 2010)




6. Classic Grammar Baffler Revisited: “How do you deal with anticipatory ‘there’ clauses?” (January 3, 2010)


 

7. Lesson on Reported Speech That You Might Have Missed: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (January 3, 2010)


 

8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams” (January 2, 2010)


 

9. The Forum Lounge: Antonio Calipjo Go's Essay "Walls" (December 29, 2019)




10. Rizal Day Retrospective: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 30, 2019)


 

11. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 3” (December 30, 2019)


 

12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using Grammar as a Tool for Persuasion” (December 28, 2019)


 


CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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