PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 15 - 21, 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: “The proper usage of ‘there is’/‘there are’ anticipatory clauses” (January 20, 2021)
2. The Absolute Phrase as Modifier: “Make sure to drop its operative verb so that the absolute phrase can work properly” (January 20, 2022)
3. Retrospective on Mistaken Notion About Idioms: “Good writing avoids clichés, not idiomatic expressions” (January 17, 2022)
4. An Unsettling Prospect Worth Pondering Again: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (January 17, 2022)
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “‘Bring’ or ‘take’ and ‘come’ or ‘go’?” (January 11, 2022)
6. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Good Prose: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 16, 2022)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: "A Treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings" (January 15, 2022)
8. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Does ‘presently’ mean ‘now’ or 'sometime soon’?” (January 15, 2022)
9. Normal Sequence-of-Tenses Rule Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (January 15, 2022)
10. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2022)
11. Audacious Speculative Reading: “Is consciousness a magical-mystery show that we stage in our own heads?” (January 16, 2022)
12. Time Out From English Grammar: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds” (January 16, 2022)
13. Getting to Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 19, 2022)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “When is using a parenthetical necessary in a sentence?” (January 20, 2022)
15. Dealing With Flawed Sentence Construction: “Fixing a sentence with a misplaced modifying phrase” (January 15, 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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