Playlist Update (August 3 - 9, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR AUGUST 3 - 9, 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 Retrospective: “Too many good books to read”


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2. Getting to Know English: “Forming negative sentences correctly”

 


3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Why use the phrase ‘in need of’ and why not just drop ‘do’ in emphatic sentences?”



                     
4. Use and Misuse: “On the tough subject-verb agreement question” (A special retrospective)


                         


5. Getting to Know English: “Still baffled when to use ‘can’ or ‘could’ and ‘will’ or ‘would’?”




6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
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7. Time Out From English Grammar: “A sixth mass extinction in our planet is now unfolding right before our eyes”


 

8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Introverts constitute a vast reservoir of untapped talent,” says Susan Cain, author of Quiet, a top 2013 science best-selling book and nonfiction best-selling book




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception”




10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The prophet of Gaia feels the climate change issue is ‘as severe as war’"


LOVELOCK IN THE 1980S: HE NOW CALLS HIMSELF AN ENGINEER RATHER THAN A SCIENTIST

11. The Forum Lounge: Retrospective: “A Secret Love,” personal retrospective by Angel Casillan, Forum contributor  




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone,” says neuroeconomist




13. Readings in Language: “Romancing the English alphabet, both literally and figuratively”




14. Time Out From English Grammar: “Sandro Botticelli's intricate paintings of woman's hair”




15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A few minutes of undiluted joy!” a video presentation by the globe-trotting husband-and-wife team of Matt Harding and Melissa Nixon that takes viewers on a delightful trip around the world

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