Author Topic: Playlist Update (August 24 - 30, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 5732 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** August 27, 2024, 09:48:33 AM »

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR AUGUST 24 - 30, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 15 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:

1. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “The ‘nerbing’ or noun-to-verb conversion syndrome”

2. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’”

3. Getting to Know English: “Why the nominative and subjective are lumped as just a single case”

4. You Asked Me This Question: “Revisiting once more the intractable ‘who’/‘whom’ grammar conundrum”

5. Essay by Jose A.Carillo: “Dealing with the vexing inverted syntax of passive-voice sentences”

6. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Concern over alarmist TV reporting about Mayon Volcano’s eruption in December 2009”

7. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Outrage over a wasted investment in English proficiency,” personal essay by DM, a U.S.-based American married to a Filipina

8. Students’ Sounding Board: “Dropping the introductory word ‘that’ in indirect speech”

9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking”

10. Readings in Language: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again”

11. Time Out From English Grammar: “A novelist in ill- health races with time to finish a masterpiece”

12. Your Thoughts Exactly: "Bridges," a personal essay by Forum contributor Antonio Calipjo Go”

13. Your Thoughts Exactly: “A harrowing but uplifting tale of the October 2009 killer floods in Metro Manila”