What do we do, to put words in fields of time? We join our thinking about the grammatical time and the grammatical person.
“Grammatical persons” are words that tell about human beings, or things, events, or other objects of thought. They also can refer to fictional characters or objects, as people in stories do not have to be real, either.
Pronouns are words that can stand for grammatical persons. The words I, you, we, they, he, she, and it are personal pronouns. We can think about –s as the feature for the pronouns he, she, and it in our PRESENT field of time.
We could say that he is someone, he has something, or he does something.
Similarly, we could say that she is someone, she has , or she does something.
The feature –s holds only for the grammatical singular, that is, single persons, creatures, things, events, or phenomena — in short, objects of thought — in the grammatical PRESENT.
The simple exercises here are to help flexible habits that can contribute to advanced language skill.
We may think about mountains, oceans, the cosmos or private islands as well, because the exercise is to imagine language form in fields generally. The website has ■FREE VISUALS.
Grammar visuals
Landscapes and surfaces for language routes and paths, also those never seen before.
All Aspect and Time
It is good to browse through language forms time and again, picture a few and turn them in mind.
Exercise 1. Let us try the grammatical person with the verbs to be, to have, and to do, for the PRESENT, PAST, and FUTURE.
In simple words, let us put the verbs in the fields of time.
With the pronouns I, you, he, she, and it, we may speak about individual objects or persons. We name this the singular, in grammar. If we already know the forms well, we can take the exercise as a mild brain-teaser: we consciously practice the fields, that is, the grammatical time, first.
Example: PRESENT, (be), she;
Answer: is.
1. PRESENT, (do), I;
2. FUTURE, (do), you;
3. PAST, (have), I;
4. PRESENT, (be), he;
5. PAST, (be), you;
6. FUTURE, (have), she;
7. PAST, (have), it;
8. PRESENT, (be), you;
9. FUTURE, (do), he;
10. PAST, (have), you.
Exercise 2. With the persons we, you, and they, we can speak about more than one object or person. In grammar, we name this the plural. We can use the pronoun “you” for the singular and the plural, please compare ■subchapter 3.2.
1. PAST, (do), they;
2. PRESENT, (do), I;
3. PRESENT, (have), he;
4. FUTURE, (be), it;
5. FUTURE, (be), we;
6. PRESENT, (have), you;
7. FUTURE, (have), we;
8. PRESENT, (be), she;
9. PAST, (do), they;
10. FUTURE, (have), you.
Exercise 3. We tell the grammatical person and time for the verbs below. We can note “all persons”, where the form stays the same for all of them. We continue focusing on time first: we hold on to the fields of time.
Example: do;
Answer: PRESENT, I, you, we, they.
1. are; 2. will do; 3. did; 4. will have; 5. has; 6. am; 7. does; 8. had; 9. were; 10. have; 11. will be; 12. was.
Grammar practice is also about a way to think. Feel welcome to some ■MIND PRACTICE.
