Playlist Update (Dec. 30, 2023 - Jan. 5, 2024) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 30, 2023 - JANUARY 5, 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. Getting To Know English Better: “When simple indicative sentences can’t drive home our point”


 



2. Misplaced Informality Retrospective: “Is ‘Hi!’ proper to begin a job application letter?”





3. You Asked Me This Question: “The perfect gerund and its uses”




4. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (17th in a series of 20): “The annoying misuse of commonly used verb-pairs”


   



5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “‘Babel No More’ explores the upper limits of being multilingual”




6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “A noun modified by ‘respective’ should always be plural in form”




7. Use and Misuse: “For good or ill, the Filipino word ‘hulidap’ enters global lexicon”




8. You Asked Me This Question: “A grammar conversation on parenthetical usage”




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams”




10. My Media English Watch: “Drawing the line against misplaced modifiers in sports writing”


   FILIPINA MIGRANT ARLENE SALVADOR, JUNIOR GOLFER IN CALIFORNIA

11. Essays by Joe Carillo: “The great gobbledygook-generating machine”




12. Essays by Joe Carillo: “Shoptalk on jargon and gobbledygook”


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13. Students’ Sounding Board:  “What happens when people don’t know enough to know they don’t know?”



14. Getting to Know English Better: “Rx for strays, danglers, and squinters”



15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A beauty and a love verboten” by Angel B. Casillan, Forum Contributor

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