Playlist Update (October 5 - 11, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR OCTOBER 5 - 11, 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: “Using reference word strategies to avoid too much word repetition”


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                                    SOME REFERENCE WORD STRATEGIES TO REDUCE
                                      TOO MUCH WORD REPETITION IN OUR SENTENCES


2. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely how do the English demonstrative pronouns work?”




3. Use and Misuse: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!”




4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Highly politicized physics and grammatically faulty news reporting”

                 


5. Getting to Know English: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English”




6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “A potent tool for whittling down complex sentences into simpler ones”




7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage





8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “The Theater of Life," personal essay by Forum Member Melvin (pseud.)




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage”


 

10. Readings in Language: “A recovered ancient manuscript changes the course of human thought”




11. Readings in Language: “Self-taught scholar-researcher uncovers “inspiration” for 11 Shakespeare plays”  




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “Geniuses are clear proof that people are not created equal,” American historian on the evolution of the concept of genius from antiquity to the present day




13. Education and Teaching: “ASEAN TeachingEnglish Online Conference now underway till October 30 to challenge traditional teaching paradigms”




14. The Forum Lounge: “What Peter Dinklage walked away from to become a resounding success” (YouTube video)




15. The Forum Lounge  Retrospective: “Lost in the English translation--The Tagalog word Nakakagigil!”

Click this link to earlier Playdate features

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