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Playlist Update (February 8 - 14, 2025) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

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Joe Carillo:
PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 8 - 14, 2025 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: “Using inversion for smooth transitions”



2. Use and Misuse: “Use of ‘hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears”



 
3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “An exception to the general rule for speling out numbers in expository writing and journalism”



         

5. Getting to Know English Better: “Why does the word ‘gratuitous’ have two contradictory senses?”




6A. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech”



THREE RELATED READINGS IN THE FORUM POSTING ABOVE, PLUS THIS POSTING FOR GOOD MEASURE:
6B: Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How verbs behave in the exceptional sequence”


7. Students’ Sounding Board: “Tough questions about sentence structure and pronoun usage”




8. Readings in Language: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than minefield of grievous errors”




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking”  


 

10. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Spectrum of humanity,” a 2013 retrospective essay by Forum Member Melvin (pseud.)




11. Time Out From English Grammar: “For all lovers worldwide, here's the real score about Valentine's Day”




12. A Forum Lounge Retrospective for Valentine's Day: “A Secret Love," a 2010 personal essay by Forum Contributor Angel Casillan




13. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Literature as History,” a 2005 lecture by F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature,” at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was Writer in Residence from April 15 - May 15 that year




14. Readings in Language: “Bridging the disconnect between simplistic and real, live English,” a preview of Frank Cioffi’s One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Handbook




15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: "Announcement in September 2023 of the release of the third updated edition of Jose Carillo's book English Plain and Simple: No-Nonsense Ways to Learn Today's Global Language goes off the press”


 
The third updated edition of English Plain and Simple is currently available in bookstores and other outlets listed in Jose Carillo's English Forum. Simply click this link to view the list: https://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/EPS_Stores.jpg
 
Click this link to earlier Playdate features

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