Playlist Update (July 13 - 19, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JULY 13 - 19, 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 Retrospective: “The sensible way to write”




2. Use and Misuse: “When editors lower their guard, headlines sometimes take a macabre turn"




3. You Asked Me This Question: “Question within a question”



                     
4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “How 'right of reply' differs from 'right to reply'”




5. Getting to Know English: “The problem with “Hello!” and “Whatever!””




6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “How to avoid semantic bedlam in the usage of the word 'only'”




7. Education and Teaching Retrospective: "An urgent call to arrest a decline in English proficiency among Filipino workers”

 
 

8. Students’ Sounding Board: "The need for caution in asserting what’s good or bad English”


Which is grammatically correct? 
“Mauna Loa is the largest volcano (in, on) the planet.”


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




10. Advice and Dissent: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?”




11. Going Deeper Into Language: “Subordinate clauses don't always play second fiddle to main clauses” 




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “The psychometric test that promised to be an 'X-ray to the soul'”




13. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: U.S. radio-TV writer Andy Rooney's “33 Golden Nuggets of Inspiration,” contributed by Forum Member Justine A.



14. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Two novelists explore family, national identity, and homeland”


15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “All That Matters,” contributed by Forum Member tonybau

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