PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 8 - 14, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. Getting To Know English Better: “The usage of ‘there is’/‘there are’ anticipatory clauses” (January 13, 2021)
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2. A Grammar Lesson You May Need to Review Yourself: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” (January 11, 2022)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of ‘between’ to set a range” (January 11, 2022)
4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where they matter most” (January 12, 2022)
5. Getting To Know English Better: “The choice between gerunds and infinitives” (January 11, 2022)
6. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 12, 2022)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: "Three funny short tales about language and perception" (January 13, 2022)
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The pitfalls of not providing sentences with a clear subject” (January 13, 2022)
9. Critique of a Spectacular Word Misuse: “‘Coeds’ from exclusive girls’ school’ a contradiction in terms” (January 11, 2022)
10. Retrospective in Faulty English: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (January 10, 2022)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (January 9, 2022)
12. An English Grammar Lesson You Might Have Missed: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English” (January 9, 2022)
13. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (January 9, 2022)
14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 8, 2022)
15. Quick Review of Very Basic Grammar: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 13, 2022)
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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