PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 31 - November 6, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings, 10 classic 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: “Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? – I” (November 5, 2020)
2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “A full-dress review of the kinds of verbs in English –4” (November 8, 2020)
3. My Media Watch Lookback: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage” (November 7, 2020)
4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors” (November 6, 2020)
5. Language Humor at its Finest: "News headlines that went awry" (November 5, 2020)
6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The linguistic distinction between ‘actress’ and ‘actor’ goes beyond sexism” (November 8, 2020)
7. Forum Advocacies Retrospective: “To improve the quality of our minds, we Filipinos must learn to think critically” (November 4, 2020)
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 6, 2020)
9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Learning punctuation from usage rather than from school textbooks” (November 6, 2020)
10. Getting to Know English: “4 specific applications of the parallelism rules” (November 6, 2020)
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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