GRAMMAR WEBLOG BY TERESA PELKA

Human beings have evolved grammars along with perception for three-dimensional space. Speech and language belong with the estimable heights, widths, and depths or lengths, just as the human need for fresh water, air, good clothing, and a decent roof. Grammar is a basic human need. It is healthy to have a good business with grammar.

Everyone thinks, speaks, or writes in real time. Sometimes, there is not even a moment to consult a rule or definition. Language Mapping^TM invokes human natural capability for logic, ■try a simple brain teaser, to see for yourself.

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The logic is flexible, as language is not a predetermined reality: beginning to read a book or to watch a movie, we usually have some expectation on what there is going to be; somewhere around the middle, we may look back to what has happened, and at the end we may think about things accomplished.

With other matters in life as well, our grammar will vary for things done and those prospective. Hence the Travel in Grammar: we practice a grammatical point of view.
■THE IDEA OF TRAVEL IN GRAMMAR.

The grammar may prove most effective step-by-step.
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■Translation to Polish can help readers in Slavic languages.■

Grammatical time is not the clock, but just as with real time, we cannot touch or see it. We can manage as in fields, with a little mind practice. ■More

1.2. Mind Practice
Thought and language originate in the mind, and most exercises in this grammar course are to be done in thought, to encourage mind habits. ■More

4. Aspect Cognitive Mapping
Human walking or other moving about needs place and time, yet it does not need anybody to give rules or definitions.
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Sooner than later, life brings the talk about Unreal Past or Future in the Past, more, in Reported Speech. With grammatical time frames, we can get along easy. ■More

Grammar Off the Record

It is a fact of life that we do not graduate in linguistics before we hear or speak everyday language, or read Huck Finn. ■The Grapevine

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“Thank you for such a unique way of teaching grammar. Frankly, this is the first time I could understand a grammar book. I have always learnt grammar through intuition and by lots of reading, as I could never really grasp the grammar books that taught language like 2+2 = 4. I have always found them confusing and contradictory. As you rightly said you cannot learn grammar because so-and-so says so. I loved your line that grammar is a perspective and it was quite relieving to hear that language skills can be directed independently and consciously. The way you are teaching grammar with a psychological perspective is absolutely the right way. — Thank you so much. I think your studies on language and its psychology is unique and is going to help a lot of people”, Shivangi Sharma.

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FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD

To see how we could cognitively map in language, let us try a mild brainteaser. If we compare our answers with family, friends, or other people and the results are consistent, the mapping is natural for us, even if the idea has not been well known: our brain-teaser is intuitive. ■→More

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4.1. THE IDEA OF TRAVEL IN GRAMMAR

We can think about the Simple, Progressive, and Perfect — together, as variables that we choose in real time. It can be good time and in truth, no effort at all. ■→More

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5.1. THE LOGIC SO FAR

We sum up on the grammar logic so far, and visualize Time with Aspect — for efficient language habits with target grammatical time. ■→More

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6.1. OUR LINGUISTIC GRAVITATION

Our time extents, PRESENT and PAST, do not change for punctuation. They do not change for the Aspect, Simple or Perfect, either. To continue our work on the two Aspects, we choose on the grammatical time frame. ■→More

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8.1. EARTHLING BASIC COGNITIVE VARIABLE

Planet Earth has been a natural habitat for millennia. In thousands of years, people to think what there is {ON} a map, have not denied plausibility for places {IN} areas, routes {TO} places, as well as locations {AT} them. Early childhood learning to talk has been getting along with learning to walk. Human postural control…

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CHAPTER 10. FORM RELATIVITY GALORE

With theory making, PAST forms refer to the PRESENT, and PRESENT forms refer to the FUTURE. It is only the anchored PAST to stay in the PAST. Theory making is similar in Polish, Russian, French, and other languages: if I was, si j’étais, gdybym był/a, если бы я был/а, wäre ich, etc.Our language form relativity…

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