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2021: "English Plain and Simple" columns in The Manila Times(This listing is in reverse chronological order, the latest first. To access and read a particular column, simply click the indicated link.)
November 25, 2021:
Parentheticals for spontaneity in our proseNovember 18, 2021:
Conditional sentences that don’t use “if”November 11, 2021:
The grammar of “if”-conditional sentencesNovember 4, 2021:
The perfect progressive tense takes its timeOctober 28, 2021:
Timeline for the future perfect tenseOctober 21, 2021:
Timeline for the past perfect tenseOctober 14, 2021:
Timeline for the present perfect tenseOctober 7, 2021:
Going back not only to the future perfectSeptember 30, 2021:
Did the First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 3September 23, 2021:
Did the First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 2September 16, 2021:
Did the First Mass historians ever talk to one another? - 1September 9, 2021:
How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 3September 2, 2021:
How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 2August 26, 2021:
How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 1August 19, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 21August 12, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 20August 5, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 19July 29, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 18July 22, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 17July 15, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 16July 8, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 15July 1, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 14June 24, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 13June 17, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 12June 10, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 11June 3, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 10May 27, 2021:
Pause in series
May 20, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 9May 13, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 8May 6, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 7April 29, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 6April 22, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 5April 15, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years –4April 8, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 3April 1, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 2March 25, 2021:
Getting our history right after 500 years – 1March 18, 2021:
A student’s travails in modular distance learningMarch 11, 2021:
After 500 years, will the true site of the first Holy Mass be affirmed at last?March 4, 2021:
The germ of a great idea rememberedFebruary 25, 2021:
Avoiding improper uses of the conjunction “as”February 18, 2021:
When can history be told in the present tense?February 11, 2021:
The art of avoiding needless voice shiftsFebruary 4, 2021:
Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 3January 28, 2021:
Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 2January 21, 2021:
Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 1January 14, 2021:
Not all our assertions can be established truthsJanuary 7, 2021:
How inversion can clarify baffling sentencesDecember 31, 2020:
Disrupting the declarative sentence pattern for emphasisDecember 24, 2020:
What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 2December 17, 2020:
What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 1December 10, 2020:
Inverted sentences have a subject-verb agreement peculiarityDecember 3, 2020:
Sequencing tenses in sentences with relative clausesNovember 26, 2020:
Aspiring writer in storm-ravaged town appeals for helpNovember 19, 2020:
When notional agreement overrides grammatical agreementNovember 12, 2020:
Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? - IINovember 5, 2020:
Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? - IOctober 29, 2020:
Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessiveOctober 22, 2020:
Proper punctuation is the mark of a good writerOctober 15, 2020:
Redundancies, imprecisions in mass media EnglishOctober 8, 2020:
Is there such a thing as a complex-complex sentence?October 1, 2020:
Constructing the perfect tenses in the passive voiceSeptember 24, 2020:
A letter from a bereaved German widowerSeptember 17, 2020:
A curious encounter about the use of position titlesSeptember 10, 2020:
Make sure your endearment doesn’t bungle its comparativeSeptember 3, 2020:
How the English demonstrative pronouns workAugust 27, 2020:
How the English demonstrative pronouns workAugust 20, 2020:
When can history be narrated in the present tense?August 13, 2020:
Handling pronouns with unclear antecedentsAugust 6, 2020:
The need for caution in asserting what’s good or bad EnglishJuly 30, 2020:
Travails with learning just a smattering of LatinJuly 16, 2020:
Complications when using hyphenated possessivesJuly 9, 2020:
When splitting infinitives becomes a must for clarity’s sakeJuly 2, 2020:
“What” isn’t always singular when it leads off an assertionJune 25, 2020:
Determiners as functional elements of sentence structureJune 18, 2020:
Is it advisable to drop “that” from reported speech?June 11, 2020:
Play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerundJune 4, 2020:
Why we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammarMay 28, 2020:
How to deal with long, complicated noun phrasesMay 21, 2020:
How litotes and the double negative differMay 14, 2020:
Revisiting the “who”/“whom” grammar conundrumMay 7, 2020:
“Are you using ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive?”April 30, 2020:
“Don’t get caught using wrong double negatives!”April 23, 2020:
“The problem with overellipted sentence constructions”April 16, 2020:
“Have you had a look” or “Did you have a look?”April 9, 2020:
Using the right tense for reported speechApril 2, 2020:
How “even though” and “even if” differ in senseMarch 26, 2020:
How English auxiliary verbs differ from linking verbsMarch 19, 2020:
How the English past imperfect tense worksMarch 12, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 4March 5, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 3February 27, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 2February 20, 2020:
The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 1February 13, 2020:
Appositives for more engaging writingFebruary 6, 2020:
Back to the perfect infinitive using modalsJanuary 31, 2020:
The maverick behavior of verbs in the subjunctiveJanuary 24, 2020:
“12 Selected Essays by Jose Carillo” January 16, 2020:
“Bring” or “take” and “come” or “go”?January 9, 2020:
The perfect infinitive and its usesJanuary 2, 2020:
The perfect gerund and its uses
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