Playlist Update (August 10 - 16, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR AUGUST 10 - 16, 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: “Language as alphabet soup”




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

 


3. Getting to Know English Better: “We can count as many as 23 auxiliary verbs in English”




4. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses”



                     
5. Essay by Jose Carillo: “Writing to hook the reader” (A personal retrospective)


                       

6. Students’ Sounding Board: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’”
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7. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “University programs should do more teaching of language and not just literature”




8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “How light dawns on us,” intimate personal essay by Melvin (pseudonym), Forum member


 

9. Language Humor at its Finest: “When children define science in their own terms”





10. Time Out From English Grammar: “Over the centuries, democratic elections have been anything but simple”

 


11. Readings in Language: “You may not have felt them yet, but these emotional states exist”  




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms”




13. The Forum Lounge: “Book publishing's broken blurb system ‘a plague on the industry’”




14. Notable Works by Our Kindred Overseas: “Fil-Am blogger thrives on her uncommon freedom to negotiate the web”




15. The Forum Lounge: “Things my mother taught me,” contributed by Forum member Ben Sanchez


             

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