Playlist Update (November 30 - December 5, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 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: “The usefulness of summative modifiers”




2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations”



 
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Getting used to common English colloquialisms”




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




5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Cop out: When the passive voice is needed for clarity's sake”




6. Getting to Know English: “The curse of overloaded sentences”




7. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “Writing to hook the reader”




8. Students’ Sounding Board: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage”





9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears”




10. Advice and Dissent: “The Renaissance was a time of both literary creativity and military terror”  




11. Advice and Dissent: “Agnostic English philosopher bashes Richard Dawkins’ brand of atheism”




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “The immense power of the right habits to transform one’s life”




13. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Of Things That Fly,” meditations by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor




14. The Forum Lounge: “Just a little bit of history about "The Twelve Days of Christmas”




15. The Forum Lounge: “Stories best savored on Christmas Day itself”

Click this link to earlier Playdate features

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