Speech and language belong with the human need for fresh water, air, good clothing, and a decent roof. Grammar is a basic human need.
People have evolved grammars along with perception for earthly space. Since those early times, learning languages has remained natural.
Everyone thinks, speaks, or writes in real time. Sometimes, there is not even a moment to consult a rule or definition. Language MappingTM invokes human natural capability for logic.
■Try a simple brain teaser and see for yourself.
Part 1
Grammatical time is not the clock, but just as with real time, we cannot touch or see it. To begin, we can manage as in fields of time, with mind practice.
Part 2
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.
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1.2. Mind Practice
Thought and language originate in the mind: most exercises in this grammar course are to be done in thought, to encourage mind habits.
4. Aspect Cognitive Mapping
Human walking or other moving about needs place and time, yet we people do not need anyone to give rules or definitions.
10.1. Unreal or Real time
No group and no Government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. — F. D. Roosevelt
10.2. The relative Progressive
Our cognitive variables and frames for grammatical time can complement one another: Modal verbs close their frames with auxiliary HAVE; real-time frames open.
Chapter 10. Form relativity galore
People have similar devices in many languages, English, French, Polish, Russian, German, Greek, or Italian: if I were/was, si j’étais, gdybym był/a, если бы я был/а, wäre ich, αν ήμουν, se fossi.
6.1. Our linguistic gravitation
We can think as with earthly gravitation: when we have the ground, we close the time frame.
6.3. Exercises: the Aspect and the Frame
2. The skylark found nothing to outbid the bit of cosmos with a squid.
8.1. Earthling basic variable
In millennia, early childhood learning to walk has gotten along with learning to talk.
8.2. Practice for all Aspects
7. The butterfly kissed the bee in the midst of her phiz, when he saw the golden grit.
The Grapevine
You might go minus or plus infinity about the number of strawberries, but mind you, the Founders stated you couldn’t owe for strawberries that never existed, so to speak.
US civics
US civics might be even irresistible, if you’re looking for a “syntax bonanza”. They were written quite some time ago, but this needn’t stop us. We have the civics updated, American English as today.
4.1. The Idea of travel in grammar
Beginning to read a book or to watch a movie, we may wonder what there is going to be; somewhere around the middle, we may look back. Our thought always has grammar.
Books and method information
The method and the books reflect on Teresa Pelka’s own language acquisition and learning. The grammar began as her spontaneous invention when she was a child, in early 1970s
Books and course bibliography
Spoken and written language that has affirmed on Teresa Pelka’s early theory that grammar could be learned and used in association with human moving about or being in physical space.
Part 1
Grammatical time is not the clock, but just as with real time, we cannot touch or see it. To begin, we can manage as in fields of time, with mind practice.
Part 2
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.