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PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 1 - 7, 2025 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAYSimply 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: “Using inversion for smooth transitions”
2. Use and Misuse: “Doing battle with the recurrent misuse of the conjunction ‘as’” 
3. You Asked Me This Question: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” 
4. My Media English Watch: “Avoiding misuse of the conjunction ‘as well as’ in newspaper reporting” 
5. Getting to Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns”
MASS NOUNS: LOTS OF SAND, A PLATE OF PEAS, A BUNCH OF MARBLES 
TYPICAL EXAMPLES OF COLLECTIVE NOUNS 6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo (Retrospective): “The reign of the dreadful clichés” 
7. Students’ Sounding Board: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” 
8. Readings in Language: “Teaching our children to think logically” 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “A Cavalcade of Palindromes” 
10. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Outrage over a wasted investment in English proficiency,” retrospective to a 2007 letter to the Forum by a U.S.-based American married to a Filipina
11. Views and Commentaries: “Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love,” personal essay by Forum Contributor Maximo Tumbali 
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain,” Cambridge neuroscientist Hannah-Critchlow asserts in her 2019 book The Science of Fate 
13. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one,” a 2010 Forum preview of the the late Raul A.Gonzalez’s book My Malacañang 
14. Readings in Language: “The triumph of English over Babel to become the language of science,” a preview of science historian Michael Gordin’s book Scientific Babel
15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Hidden Miracles of the Natural World,” a YouTube TED video presentation by filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg using high-speed cameras, time lapses, and microscopes
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