Colors can help learn, read and write
The Travel begins with verbs, as in natural acquisition and learning. Verb auxiliary roles are marked in green, and head roles are mauve. Pronouns and nouns are ink blue. Highlights are forget-me-not, blue. We avoid color red, as it usually brings prescriptive opinion on language. ■More
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
Language form, as with cats and dogs
Different languages have different ways to name objects of thought. We can say a dog in English; in German ein Hund, in French un chien, in Greek σκυλος, and in Russian собака — whereas at the same time and in all languages, a picture of a cat is not a cat. ■More
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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