Playlist Update (March 8-14, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on FacebookTo My Facebook Friends and Fans,
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
PLAYLIST FOR MARCH 8 - 14, 2017:(Latest down to earlier postings)
1. “How to make good progress in your English by really trying” (March 13)
2. “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (March 12)
3. Redux: “‘Rediscovering John Galsworthy’ and 11 other selected essays” (March 12)
4. “What does it mean to be asked ‘Are you understanding me?’” (March 12)
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THAT GRAMMATICALLY!5. “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11)
6. “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11)
8. “English translated into Chinese in less than 5 minutes” (March 10)
9. “When they decide to write, should writers stick to what they know?” (March 10)
10. “Science works only because it feeds on curiosity and breaks its own rules” (March 10)
11. “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9)
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12. “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (March 9)
13. “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 8 )
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS:1. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
2. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
3. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
4. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
5. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
6. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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