PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 19 - 25, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 new postings, 10 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech – 2” (December 24, 2020)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the Trail of Serendipity” (December 25, 2020)
3. Retrospective: A Correspondence With A Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 23, 2020)
4. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors: “7 – The misuse of participles (1)” (December 22, 2020)
5. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (December 23, 2020)
6. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Remembrances of Christmases past” (December 25, 2020)
7. Poignant Christmas Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour—singer, public activist, and diplomat—sings a classic!” (December 19, 2020)
8. English Orthography Lesson Retrospective: “Why do we need to capitalize the first-person singular personal pronoun ‘I’?” (December 25, 2020)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page” (December 25, 2020)
10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “I’ll bet you didn’t know these about the English language” (December 23, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (December 21, 2020)
12. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 2” (December 21, 2020)
13. Media English Watch Retrospective: “The often-derided expletive ‘there’ can at times be put to good use” (December 20, 2020)
14. Getting To Know English Better “The seven uses of noun clauses” (December 14, 2020)
15. How English-Savvy Do You Think You Are? “Quick Quiz on Wayward Modifiers” (December 19, 2020)
16. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How onerous legalese imperils public welfare” (December 13, 2020)
17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (December 17, 2020)
18. Dealing with Annoying Grammar Errors: “8 – Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (3)” (December 19, 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” (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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