11. The grammatical article

Teresa Pelka 1 Minute

It is possible to note one hundred exceptions to one rule of grammar, if the rule is about the definite article, the.
“We use the definite article in front of a noun because there is only one in that context”, may ■a resource say, whereas we may come to read,
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Rules and exceptions are not going to work for us in real time. Mapping the article cognitively can do. We have the US Constitution ■linguistically updated, and thus it can work perfect for grammar as today: civics are never meant for esoteric texts; people can begin reading those as soon as people can read.

We may remember our time frames and the ■modal net. These could be useful, because the grammatical time is much about the time in mind, and this can be individual. What is a cat to one person, might be the cat to another. In natural language acquisition, the verb precedes the article, too.

(Work in progress)

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Published by Teresa Pelka

Linguist, specialized in American English and psycholinguistics; inventor of Language Mapping, a generative grammar method; author and translator; a poet and painter a bit.

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