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PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 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: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences”
2. Use and Misuse: “Getting rid of wordy beginnings for our writing,” a primer on how to dramatically improve our English by throwing out the needless legal-sounding phrases that often tempt us to begin our sentences, and using hollow expletives that only deflect emphasis from what we are writing about
3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Read more than once..!” The Forum responds to an Australian Forum member's (1) vehement objection to a Philippine news story describing Mayon Volcano as a 'sociable New Year’s Day fellow reveler’ during its eruption shortly before 2009 drew to a close that same year, and (2) that member's earlier critique of a grammatically, structurally, and semantically fractured headline produced by a major Australian online news network 
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Four perplexing questions about the usage of the English tenses” 
5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A critique of unseemly mixed metaphors in newspaper business stories" (circa August 2009) 
6. Getting to Know English: “How many types of adverbial clauses are there in English?” 
7. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “The proper use of the English subjunctive” 
8. Students’ Sounding Board: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same thing as the modal auxiliary verb ‘must’?" 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” 
10. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Bridges,” an essay by Forum Contributor Antonio Calipjo Go 
11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “After more than 500 years, will the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines be affirmed at last?” 
12. Time Out from English Grammar: “A debate on AI and the future of literature,” an enlightening debate by e-mail between two prominent writers, Henry Oliver and Sam Kahn, on what the impact of AI might be to the future of literature 
13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On Rachel Louise Carson, pathbreaking environmentalist,” a personal reminiscence by Forum Member Tonybau (pseud.) 
14. Readings in Language: “Knowing this sprinkling of ‘pilot speak’ might enable you to help save a troubled aircraft” 
15. Going Deeper Into Language: “The nature of true English idioms” 
IDIOMS ARE COLLOCATIONS THAT HAVE A NON-LITERAL MEANING
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