PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 27 - March 5, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 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. Essays by Jose Carillo: “The germ of a great idea remembered” (March 4, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “Question within a question” (March 3, 2021)
3. Basic English Usage Refresher: “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 2, 2021)
4. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2021)
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (March 1, 2021)
7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? ‘I didn’t (see, saw) her’” (March 2, 2021)
8. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “The four forms that absolute phrases take” (March 1, 2021)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “Let’s get acclimatized to the country’s weather terminology” (February 24, 2021)
10. Refresher on an Important Grammar Basic: “The perils of using double negative constructions” (February 28, 2021)
11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On English and Esperanto as bridging languages in multilingual countries” (February 28, 2021 )
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Where’s the verb in this sentence?” (February 28, 2021)
13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The need to avoid officious stock phrases when writing or speaking” (February 27, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question: » The use of "that of" in jurisprudence” (February 27, 2021)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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