Jose Carillo on the English Language

This blog makes wide-ranging discussions on the use and misuse of the English language. Jose A. Carillo is a nationally awarded writer and editor and an internationally awarded corporate communicator. He has written three books on English usage.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Time to get a more solid grasp of the usage of “that” and “which”

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Does the choice between “that” and “which” to link relative clauses still make your head spin? Try this one: “The charming beach resort (th...

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent

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It’s never too late to pursue writing as a vocation if one belatedly discovers having the talent and the great reserves of energy to do it....

Sunday, October 6, 2013

How to bring compositions to a proper, satisfying close

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The following question was raised by a reader after I posted a four-part essay entitled “Basic and advanced techniques for doing paragraph ...

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Basic and advanced techniques for doing paragraph transitions

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By this time most of us should already be familiar with the English paragraph and could whip up one or several of them with great ease. The...

Sunday, September 1, 2013

A trusty dictionary to build a zone of comfort around our word choices

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We nonchalantly turn to our English dictionary for guidance when in doubt about our word choices and their meanings, grammatical function, ...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Six informal prescriptions for better writing in English

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Over the past 11 years, readers of my English-usage column in The Manila Times and, from May 2009 onwards, members of this Forum as well w...

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JoeCarillo: Jose A. Carillo is a nationally awarded writer and editor and an internationally awarded corporate communicator. He won a National Book Award for linguistics from the Manila Critics Circle in 2005 for his first English-usage book, "English Plain and Simple.” Aside from winning a total of nine major industry awards in the Philippines as company editor and public affairs executive, he won the Gold Quill Award of the U.S.-based International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1989 and the Golden World Award of the U.K.-based International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in 1990. He is now an independent editor and communication consultant based in Metro Manila.

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