Playlist Update (February 15-21, 2025) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 15 - 21, 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: “Even more pragmatic uses of inversion”



2. Use and Misuse: “Rich vocabulary, poor spelling”



 
3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Can a sentence use two or more subordinate clauses in a row?”

 

4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Confused, grammatically flawed sentence about a fallen dictator”


         

5. You Asked Me This Question: “Differentiation between misinformation and disinformation”




6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “Thoughts on political propaganda”




7. Your Thoughts Exactly: “How light dawns on us,” personal reflections by Forum Member Melvin (pseud.)




8. Students’ Sounding Board: “Usage of ‘due to’ and ‘because of’”




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Cracking the human resource code and other workplace mantras”  


 

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




11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “There’s more to our passwords than the annoyance they bring”




12. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Young upcoming novelist on ‘The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer’”




13. Time Out From English Grammar: “Aside from plays and poetry, did Shakespeare also dabble in sci-fi?”




14. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Ever wondered why we have all these anthropomorphic collective nouns?”





15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “All That Matters,” a 2013 recollection by Forum Member Tonybau (pseud.) highlighted by memorable renditions of the Broadway hit song “With One Look” by Glenn Close, Shirley Bassey,and Elaine Page


 

Click this link to earlier Playdate features