PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 15 - 21, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 11 classic posts)
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:1. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (April 20, 2023)
2. A Matter That Still Confounds Many: "Back to the basics of quoting and attributing in English" (April 19, 2023)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How literal prepositional phrases and nonliteral prepositional idioms differ” (April 18, 2023) 
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “How I Discovered Gabriel García Márquez” (April 17, 2023) 
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Redundancies, imprecisions in mass media English” (April 16, 2023) 
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Advice from a noted scientist to aspiring young scientists” (April 16, 2023)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (April 16, 2023)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When educators befuddle” (April 20, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: "Wow! A cavalcade of 29 palindromes" (April 16, 2023) 
10. Students’ Sounding Board: "Cautionary tale on asserting what is good or bad English" (April 16, 2023) 
11. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: "Subordinate clauses don't always play second fiddle to main clauses" (April 10, 2023) 
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Incredulous over an ever-loving omnipotent creator consumed by an endless rage” (April 20, 2023) 
13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 17, 2023)
14. Tonybau's Retrospective: “Lockdown: Before and After” (April 17, 2023)
15. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What’s the correct usage for the verbs ‘brought’ and ‘taken’?” (April 20, 2023) 
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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