PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 7 - 13, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(20 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Getting to Know English: “The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 4” (March 12, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (March 12, 2020)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (March 13, 2020)
4. Timely Discovery Worth Revisiting: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone” (March 13, 2020)
5. You Asked Me This Question: “How do ‘I hope’ and ‘hopefully’ differ and is the latter acceptable usage?” (March 12, 2020)
6. 2016 Year-End Folio Retrospective: “Six personal essays and six general-interest readings" (March 12, 2020)
7. Advice and Dissent: “Preventing scholarship from getting swamped with low-quality research” (March 11, 2020)
8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2020)
9. Unsettling Revelations for Hero Worshipers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2020)
10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A folktale for our troubled times” (March 10, 2020)
11. Advice and Dissent: “How genius is within everyone’s reach—but even wisdom, too?” (March 10, 2020)
12. Wacky Phonetics You Might Have Missed: “English translated into Chinese in less than 5 minutes” (March 10, 2020)
13. Advice and Dissent: “When writers decide to write, should they stick to what they know?” (March 10, 2020)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “How the grammar of active and passive voice sentences differs” (March 9, 2020)
15. You Asked Me This Question: “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9, 2020)
16. Intriguing Question on Possessive Adjectives: “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (March 9, 2020)
17. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 8, 2020)
18. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2020)
19. Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 7, 2020)
20. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”[/size] (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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