Author Topic: Playlist Update (June 22 - 28, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 6510 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** June 26, 2024, 03:05:03 PM »

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JUNE 22- 28, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 00 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:

1. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “Aiming for euphony in our prose”

2. Getting to Know English: “We can count as many as 23 auxiliary verbs in English"

3. Use and Misuse: “How the perfect participle and the present participle differ”

4. Use and Misuse: "‘As if’ and ‘as though’--Is there a difference?”

5. You Asked Me This Question: “The perfect progressive tense takes its time”

6. My Media English Watch: "Concern over alarmist TV reporting about Mayon’s eruption”

7. Students’ Sounding Board: "Does ‘have to’ mean the same thing as the modal auxiliary verb ‘must’?”

8. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: "English-challenged signages in our part of the world”

9. Language Humor at its Finest: “31 nuggets of zany wisdom from the humor bin”

10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Charming take on writers as not-so-great conversationalists”

11. Time Out From English Grammar: “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to solve quadratics”

12. Advice and Dissent: “Dead Sea Scroll fragments acquired by U.S. Bible museum are forgeries”

13. Your Thoughts Exactly: "Some tangled tropes that annoy me," personal essay by Isabel Escoda, Forum Contributor