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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 27 - August 2, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when is a verb linking or an auxiliary?” (August 1, 2019)
2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “78 fabulous advice from famous people” (August 1, 2019)
3. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The four nominative functions of nouns” (August 1, 2019)
4. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (July 31, 2019)
5. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2019)
6. For Uniform and Consistent English Usage: Gerry T. Galacio’s “A suggested style guide for all Philippine government offices” (July 31, 2019)
7. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English” (July 31, 2019)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (July 31, 2019)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2019)
10. You Asked Me This Question: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (July 30, 2019)
11. Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Choosing between a descriptivist and prescriptivist dictionary” (July 30, 2019)
12. You Asked Me This Question: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (July 29, 2019)
13. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (July 29, 2019)
14. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (July 29, 2019)
15. How Good is Your English?: “How criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests can help improve your English” (July 28, 2019)
16. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book”’ (July 28, 2019)
17. Advice and Dissent: “Using computers to develop policy options for a healthier, happier world” (July 28, 2019)
18. Back to the Very Basics of English Grammar: “Should verbs always be modified by adverbs ending in ‘-ly’?” (July 28, 2019)
19. Advice and Dissent: “What could happen if a Filipina nurse overseas doesn’t speak English well enough” (July 28, 2019)
20. Time Out From English Grammar: “South Korean YouTuber, just 6, buys $8-million property using her toy review channel earnings” (July 28, 2019)
21. Essays by Jose Carillo: “The wisdom of routinely avoiding anticipatory ‘there is’/‘there are’ clauses” (July 27, 2019)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
(Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
(Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor”
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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