PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 9 - 15, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
18 new postings, 10 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Getting to Know English Better: “Not all our assertions can be established truths” (January 14, 2021)
2. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2021)
3. Jaw-dropping Grammar Misuse Retrospective: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage” (January 15, 2021)
4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the one nonfiction book that each profoundly changed their minds” (January 15, 2021)
5. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 15, 2020)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “How the perfect participle and the present participle differ” (January 14, 2021)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What does the expression ‘if anything’ mean?” (January 14, 2020)
8. Normal Sequence-of-Tenses Rule Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (January 14, 2021)
9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2021)
10. How Come They Didn’t Have the Nobility of Spirit? “The league of literary greats is hardly a mutual admiration society” (January 13, 2021)
11. Critique of Media’s Spectacular Word Misuse: “‘Coeds’ from exclusive girls’ school’ a contradiction in terms” (January 11, 2021)
12. A Grammar Lesson You May Need to Review Yourself: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” (January 11, 2021)
13. Essay on Public Speaking That You Might Have Missed: “Clichés and bad body English” (January 10, 2021)
14. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Why not a few academics encode their insights into turgid English” (January 10, 2020)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (January 9, 2021)
16. An English Grammar Lesson You Might Have Missed: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English”(January 9, 2021)
17. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (January 9, 2021)
18. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January 2, 2021)
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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