Wednesday, January 22, 2025

SOUND AS AN ELEMENT OF WRITING STYLE

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Aiming for euphony in our English prose By Jose A.Carillo M y first impulse was to approach euphony from a purely grammatical and structural...
Monday, January 13, 2025

THE GRAMMAR OF MANNERS

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  “Mind” is a very tricky, very often misused English verb By Jose A. Carillo “M ind” is a very tricky English word, probably as deceptive ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

WATCHING OUT AGAINST GLITTERING OR GLOWING GENERALITIES

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When Faulty Logic Overrides Good Grammar and Semantics By Jose A. Carillo   S ome seemingly matter-of-fact and grammatically airtight statem...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

GETTING TO KNOW ENGLISH MUCH BETTTER

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How do we know if a sentence  that  uses  “ were ” is in the indicative or subjunctive mood?   By Jose A. Carillo   I t won’t be surprising...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

DO MUCH BETTER THAN A CALCULATED GUESS IN HANDLING CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

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Mastering the 4 Types of Conditional Sentences  By Jose A. Carillo I know for a fact that a lot of writers and editors—including myself when...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

STEELING OURSELVES AGAINST UNCEASING MASSIVE DISINFORMATION

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Exercising caution in times of reasonable doubt   By Jose A. Carillo O nce upon a time the spread of false information took a much slower an...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

ESSAYS BY JOSE A. CARILLO

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The great importance of parallel construction in presenting ideas     By Jose A. Carillo A part from the usefulness of the information or th...