Author Topic: Playlist Update (December 6 - 13, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 6060 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** December 10, 2024, 05:29:59 PM »

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 6 - 13, 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: “Crafting more elegant prose with free modifiers”

2. You Asked Me This Question: “How literal adverbial phrases differ from idiomatic ones”

3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Once more, on that rather tough subject-verb agreement question”

4. My Media English Watch: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in media”

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5. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers”

6. Getting To Know English: “Crafting our sentences to the desired context”

7. Students’ Sounding Board: “Confusion over the use of ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’”

8. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “In defense of using ‘Greetings!’ at the start of a letter”

9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “33 plays wyth wurds plus 33 philosophies of hypocrisy and ambiguity”

10. Time Out From English Grammar: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms”

11. Readings in Language: “With this tome, few foreign thoughts and ideas need be lost in translation”

12. Your Thoughts Exactly: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past”

13. The Forum Lounge: “Once again, how to say ‘Merry Christmas’ in 75 of the world’s languages”