Tag: Grammar

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  Appendix 2. Irregular verbs, high & low vowels

  Most dictionaries list irregular verbs alphabetically, so we do not need to repeat that here. We look to speech sound patterns: they make remembering irregular forms much easier. We may begin with just reading a few verbs at a time. The free PDF has the story entire. ■More

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  Grammar bonus

  A color code to help read and learn, and simple questions answered: what a verb is, what language form is; irregular verbs, vowels high and low, back and front; patterns for all Aspects, the Simple, Progressive, Perfect, and Perfect Progressive. ■More

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  Appendix 1. Verbs and what they do

  Verbs tell activities, faculties, or states, as to think, to work, or to be. They may do this in four Aspects, the Simple, Progressive, Perfect, and Perfect Progressive; intransitive or dynamic, in infinitives or participles — where Modals are exception in much, and yet legitimate verbs of a frame. ■More

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  Part 2. Towards the time frame

  “Future in the Past” or “Unreal Past”? The Simple against the Perfect, and the Simple versus the Progressive, we make out a time frame. Devices as the Modal Net and Form Relativity may render the Conditional or Sequence of tenses redundant, for “unreal” grammar to work in real time. ■More

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  Part 1. Towards the grammatical Aspect

  We draw conclusions from natural language acquisition and begin with verbs, to be, to have, to do, and the verb form will. Part 1 works verb syntax for the Simple, Progressive, and Perfect, along with the Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative, and Negative Interrogative. ■More