Playlist Update (June 29 - July 5, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JUNE 29- JULY 5, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 15 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: “Making nominalization work for our prose”




2. Use and Misuse: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!"




3. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?”


WOULD YOU EVER USE THE WORD “INVITE” AS A NOUN IN SOCIAL NOTES LIKE THESE?
                     
4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of species and animal gender confusion”




5. Getting to Know English: "Why does the word ‘gratuitous’ have two contradictory senses?”

 


6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: "Dealing with various levels of intransitivity”




7. Advocacies Retrospective: William Zinsser on writing--“Short is better than long. Simple is good”


 

8. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality”


A PBEd POSTER HIGHLIGHTING THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF TEACHERS IN EDUCATION

9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Top 10 Murphy’s Laws and Its 8 corollaries”




10. Students’ Sounding Board: “When is sentence inversion a matter of grammar or style?”




11. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “My struggles as a teacher” by Vinzvonvan, Forum Member 

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THIS PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY A DEPED TEACHER IS BEING USED HERE FOR REPRESENTATION PURPOSES ONLY

12. Advice and Dissent: “Could an algorithm do a better job of deciding what’s best for you?”




13. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “When books and life intersect” personal essay by Howie Severino, GMA-7, Forum Contributor




14. Time Out From English Grammar: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve”




15. A Forum Lounge Special: “A stage musical presentation to take your breath away!”

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Making nominalization work for our prose