Tuesday, October 17, 2023

In Defense of the Serial Comma

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ESSAYS BY JOSE CARILLO RETROSPECTIVE: Using the serial comma is no t  just a matter of stylistic preference It might seem like it’s just a m...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Retrospective on Notable Works in English by Our Very Own

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Overlooked for Months, Connecting Flights  Finally Connects With Me (First posted in Jose Carillo's English Forum, November 19, 2010) L ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Distinguishing direct speech from indirect or reported speech

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What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 1  A Masteral student in Myanmar doing comparative research on the four types of se...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

A unified approach to the use of punctuation in English

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Part II: THE PARENTHETICALS AND THEIR USES A. The parenthesis and its uses  We are all familiar with the two curved marks that we know as th...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

A unified approach to the use of punctuation in English

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Part I:  INTRODUCTION As with all the alphabet-based languages, English is primarily dependent on word choices and their combinations for th...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Third updated edition of “English Plain and Simple” now off the press

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September 14, 2023 —Now off the press this week is the third updated edition of Jose Carillo’s best-selling book English Plain and Simple: N...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Going Deeper Into Language - 4

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  Part IV: Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1 We are done with our discussion of the first two broad categories of the logical fa...