Now off the press is the third updated edition of Jose Carillo’s best-selling book Hailed by leading academicians, journalists, and critics upon its release in 2005 as “a charmer of a book that delights as well as instructs,” it won the National Book Award for linguistics from the Manila Critics Circle that same year.

7he 0anila 7imes Publishing &orp. announced this ZeeN that the 00 page booN is noZ being distributed to maMor booNstores nationZide, and copies are being made available for direct deliveries to interested institutional, corporate, and individual buyers

English Plain and Simple brings together the author’s first collection of grammar lessons and advice that originally appeared in his long running Manila Times column that started coming out si[ days a ZeeN in 00 . 7Zo more volumes draZing material from his Times columns folloZed, namely The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors ( 00 ) and Give Your English the Winning Edge ( 009).

In his foreZord to English Plain and Simple, 'r. Jose <. 'alisay, Ph.', professor emeritus of English at the 8niversity of the Philippines and +all of )amer of the &arlos Palanca AZards for /iterature, says ³7here are many guides to English that the avid student can picN up, but Tuite a feZ, I thinN, actually do more harm than good as ponderous rulebooNs meant for rote memori]ation. %ut every noZ and then comes a charmer of a booN that delights as Zell as it instructs. English Plain and Simple is one such gem, for Zhich Ze have the pseudonymous 0r. &arillo to thanN. :hether he Zas ZalNing me through the hierarchy of adMectives or discovering *abriel *arcia 0arTue], &arillo never failed to shoZ me something neZ and cause me to smile in recognition of a shared e[perience.´

After over 0 years of using Jose &arillo as pen name, the author finally reveals his identity in the latest edition of English Plain and Simple. +e is the veteran neZspaper Mournalist and communications e[ecutive &arlos 2. /lorin Jr., a former college neZspaper editor in chief (the ZeeNly Dawn, 8niversity of the East), marNeting field researcher (Asia Research Inc.), national neZspaper reporter (Philippines Herald), and ad agency public relations manager (J. Romero & Associates). +e ZorNed for 6an 0iguel &orporation for 1 years as editorial services head, audio visual group head, senior communications assistant, and product manager, then as corporate communications manager

Zith the ranN of assistant vice president.

+e Zon nine maMor Philippine industry aZards as editor in chief of the company’s monthly maga]ine Kaunlaran and fortnightly neZsletter. As e[ecutive director of 6an 0iguel’s 0agnolia <outh Achievement AZards, he Zon a *old 4uill AZard from the 8.6. based International Association of %usiness &ommunicators (IA%&) in 19 9 and the *olden :orld AZard from the 8... based International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in 1990.

/lorin tooN optional early retirement as assistant vice president for communications of 6an 0iguel’s 0agnolia 'ivision in 199 , later running the English language services company Asia +erald Inc. as general manager for five years until 00 . &urrently, aside from Zriting his ZeeNly column in The Manila Times, he is an independent Zriter and booN editor as Zell as editing and communication consultant for corporate, institutional, and individual clients.

'escribing the rationale for Zriting his three English usage booNs, /lorin says ³As Zith my ZeeNly columns in the Manila Times, they aim to help nonnative English speaNers improve their Zritten English Zithout having to go bacN to the classroom and, franNly, to maNe )ilipinos Neenly aZare that if their English is bad, it’s largely due to the Philippine culture’s fervid addiction to legalese. English Plain and Simple in particular gently ZalNs the reader through the basic and practical and later the finer aspects of English grammar and semantics, revisiting all of the parts of speech and their rudiments²from nouns and pronouns to adMectives and adverbs, from the comma and period to the paragraph and double dash.´