Author Topic: Playlist Update (March 22 - 28, 2025) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 11735 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** March 25, 2025, 07:25:12 PM »

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 22 -28, 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: “The subjunctive and its functions”

2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A wide-ranging potpourri of bad English shared in the Forum 12 years ago”

3. You Asked Me This Question: “Could you give me some doable advice on how I can improve my writing and speaking in English?”

4. My Media English Watch Overview (2009): “Is Philippine media’s criticism of the bad English of some public school textbooks a case of ‘the kettle calling the pot black’?”

5. Getting to Know English: “It’s time to get a more solid grasp of the usage of ‘that’ and ‘which’”

6. English Plain and Simple: “When even the passive voice Isn't enough”

8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Candor of Reality,” personal essay posted in 2015 by Neronver-Zack, Forum Contributor

9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “31 nuggets of zany wisdom from the humor bin”

10. Advice and Dissent: “A compelling alternative to Shakespeare’s true identity was that he was a woman”

11. Readings in Language: “Two versions of the ‘quotative like’ are taking English by storm”

12. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Everyone should learn to write well,” personal essay in 2009 by Arvin Ortiz, Forum member

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

14. The Forum Lounge: “Things my mother taught me,” motherly words of advice shared with the Forum in 2010 by Ben Sanchez, with the accompanying images mostly sourced by the Forum later