Author Topic: Playlist Update (November 2 - 8, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 704 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** November 06, 2024, 10:48:24 AM »

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 2 - 8, 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 synonyms to enliven prose”

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

3. Students’ Sounding Board: “Does 'have to' mean the same thing as the modal auxiliary verb 'must'?”

4. Advice and Dissent: “Teaching our children to think logically”

5. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Avoiding the embarrassing pitfall of misusing certain English words”

6. Getting To Know English: “How inversion can clarify baffling sentences”

7. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Mind Matters!”, a personal essay by Forum Member Melvin (pseudonym)

8. Advice and Dissent: “For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think, argues American philosopher Alva Noë”

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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Five dozen amusing job descriptions”

10. You Asked Me This Question: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives”

11. Education and Teaching: “The language of literature and science,” personal reminiscence by Jose A. Carillo

12. Readings in Language: “Monkeys won't be able to type Shakespeare's works within our universe's lifespan, says two Sydney-based mathematicians”

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13. Time Out From English Grammar: “Three eye-opening science readings to fight irrationality”