Playlist Update (May 11 - 17, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MAY 11 - 17, 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. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “The perils of sweeping generalizations”

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2. Use and Misuse: “Pitfalls in constructing negative used to sentences”

                                         
THE AMERICAN ENGLISH PRESCRIPTION FOR “USED TO” USAGE                                     


3. You Asked Me This Question: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions”




4. Students’ Sounding Board: “How to identify what’s wrong in a sentence construction test”




5. Students’ Sounding Board: “‘All’ can actually mean ‘totality,’ ‘everything,’ or even ‘nothing’”




6. Getting to Know English: “Revisiting the 'who'/'whom' grammar conundrum”




7. Education and Teaching: “Taylor Swift studies surging in North America akin to the 1990s Madonna-ology ”


   


8. Advocacies: “Deliberately and intentionally miseducating the Filipino,” a critique by Forum Contributor Antonio Calipjo Go of a 2015 DECS textbook




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears”




10. Time Out From English Grammar: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms”




11. You Asked Me This Question: “How do litotes and the double negative differ?”  




12. Essay by Jose Carillo (A Retrospective): Verbal fallacies nearer home”




13. Your Thoughts Exactly: "A Prayer to St. Jude," Retrospective Essay by Angel Casillan, Forum Contributor




14. Going Deeper Into Language: "Subordinate clauses don't always play second fiddle to main clauses”



 
15. The Forum Lounge: “'Pun-ography' is wordplay to make you smile”

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