Playlist Update (November 9 - 15, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 9 - 15, 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Using relative pronouns as reference words”




2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A letter from a bereaved German widower”




3. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Harrowing and uplifting tales of the September 2009 killer floods in Metro Manila”




4. You Asked Me This Question: “Clarifying how the double possessive in English works”




5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Did that newspaper columnist commit an egregious grammar error?”


       

6. Getting To Know English: “Puzzling usage prescriptions for ‘used to’”




7. You Asked Me This Question: “Can the word ‘all’ both mean ‘totality’ and ‘everything’ as well as ‘nothing but’?”




8. You Asked Me This Question: “When do we use ‘bring’ or ‘take’ and when do we use ‘come’ or ‘go’?”




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “20 spot-on political quips for our times”





10. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “Aspiring writer in storm-ravaged town in 2020 appeals for help“




11. Getting To Know English: “Mastery of the connectives can make you write much better”  




12. The Forum Lounge: “SSS urges its members to update their contact information in the My.SSS Portal”




13. Time Out From English Grammar: “Even before the Enlightenment, Shakespeare already embraced science in his plays”




14. The Forum Lounge: Prolific Canadian writer Sheila Heti critiques a book “On writing advice and the people who give it” in the online Paris Review


IMAGE CREDIT: DRAWING BY STEPHANIE BRODY LEDERMAN


15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A few minutes of undiluted joy!”--The husband-and-wife team of Matt Harding and Melissa Nixon trips the light on video with the rest of the world in 2014

Click this link to earlier Playdate features

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