Playlist Update (April 27 - May 3, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 27 - MAY 4, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. Matters of Consistency Retrospective: “The art of avoiding needless voice shifts” (May 3, 2019)


 

2. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when do we use the past progressive tense?” (May 2, 2019)


 

3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Quick quiz on wayward modifiers” (May 1, 2019)


 

4. My Thoughts Exactly: “‘Black Hole’ by Melany Amante Mabao Maguindanao” (May 1, 2019)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Which construction is correct: ‘My brother and I…’ or ‘I and my brother…’?” (May 1, 2019)


 

6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Why an object needn’t follow the verb ‘told’” (April 30, 2019)


 

7. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Frenzied arrival reporting, this time for the ASEAN Summit dignitaries” (April 29, 2019)




8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A Filipino-Australian woman on helping people write and speak good English” (April 29, 2019)



 

9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Some informal prescriptions for better writing in English” (April 28, 2019)


 

10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Ferreting out truth and falsehood from the flood of poll propaganda” (April 28, 2019)


 

11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific developments” (April 28, 2019)


 

12. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions” (April 27, 2019)


 

13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (April 27, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):

1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



2. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



3. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

4. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



5. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



7. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



9. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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