PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 10 - 16, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years” - Part 16 (July 15, 2021)
2. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? “I didn’t (see, saw) her” (July 13, 2021)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When even the passive voice isn’t enough” (July 13, 2021)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (July 13, 2021)
5. The Hazards of Modifier Misplacement: “When ‘only’ goes haywire” (July 11, 2021)
6. Language Humor at its Finest: “30 of the most humorous quotables you’d come by these worrisome days” (July 13, 2021)
7. Time Out From Grammar: “Scientist says 150 is the most number of friends one can comfortably have” (July 12, 2021)
8. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “33 modern English essays” (July 12, 2021)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Do we say ‘I hope you’d get well soon” or “I hope you’ll get well soon”? (July 11, 2021)
10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “A fresh, more definitive retelling of the history of the Roman Empire” (July 10, 2021)
11. My Media English Watch Retrospective:: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage” (July 10, 2021)
12. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The craft of writing headlines and titles – 1” (July 10, 2021)
13. Getting to Know English: “How many types of adverbial clauses are there in English?” (July 9, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “Should the law and lawyers casually say ‘plea of guilty’ and ‘plea of innocent’?” (July 10, 2021)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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