Author Topic: Playlist Update (Dec. 14 - 20, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway  (Read 712 times)

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PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 14 - 20, 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: “Making good use of free relative clauses”




2. Use and Misuse: “What are substantive and attributive clauses?”

SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSES:
 

ATTRIBUTIVE CLAUSES:



3. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Using the serial comma isn't just a matter of stylistic preference”




4. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of 'need' as modal auxiliary”




5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Placing a modifier where it rightfully should be”




6. Getting to Know English: “Four peculiar ways to make your English beyond reproach”






7. Advocacies: “Bill Gates advocates environment-friendly subtitutes for animal fat in our diet”




8. Students’ Sounding Board: “When is sentence inversion a matter of grammar or style?”




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: 34 business jokes and quotes to perk up our dreary days





10. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Candor of Reality,” personal essay contributed by Neronver-Zac (pseud)




11. Advice and Dissent: “Grammar poll on a contentious subject-verb agreement disagreement”




12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Descriptivism in English can quickly succumb to its own kind of smugness”




13. Time Out From English Grammar: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths”




14. The Forum Lounge: “Once again, how to say 'Merry Christmas' in 75 of the world's languages”




15. The Forum Lounge: “A kid's view of the Christmas Story” (video on YouTube)






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