Author: Teresa Pelka
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11. The grammatical article
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…
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US civics update: the why and how
I keep the John Carter layout because it is very legible: words are divided as to help get around within the text, where you could say the n-dash is “interstate”.…
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Appendix 4. Patterns for all Aspects
When we learn, it is good to browse through language forms time and again, only read a few, and think about them with other patterns that come to mind. The…
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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…
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Voluntary practice
The practice has questions and suggested answers about American civics. The answers are not comprehensive; they are more of ideas that could be of use in creative writing. ■The Declaration…
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The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal”.…
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USA Great Seal
United States federal authorities have used the Great Seal to authenticate documents since 1782. The obverse of the Seal is the national coat of arms of the United States. It…
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Emancipation Proclamation
PROCLAMATION 93 I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the…
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The bald eagle
The name Haliaeetus leucocephalus, derives from Greek hali, the sea, aiētos, eagle, leuco, white, and cephalos, a head. Literally, the name is the white-headed sea eagle. The name bald eagle…
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USA Flag
USA national flag has thirteen stripes of red alternating with white. The red is at the top and the bottom. In insignia, the white is on the left and right.…
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Amendments to US Constitution
AMENDMENT I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the…
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US Constitution
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and…
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The Declaration of Independence
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers…
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Absolutely basics about the USA
Source: Wikimedia, Kevin McCoy The governing body of the American democracy is the Congress. It is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and works in the Capitol Hill, in…
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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,…
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Grammar bonus
A color code to help read and learn, and simple questions answered: what a verb is, what language form is; irregular verbs, vowels high and low, back and front; patterns…
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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…
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Grapevine: Word natures
Dis-establishmentarian people would be as the flower power or hippie guys, whose alternative lifestyles involved little or no capability for finance. We are considerate abut our developmental stages, so we…
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Grapevine: The way we have worked
Folks, there is always going to be some psychology that people tackle you with. We have seen it so often, that we’ve come to terms. We only mind if the…
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Grapevine: Only real strawberries count
You might hear you 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, or so…
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Grapevine: Granny talks Present Simple
Travel in Grammar obviously is not the only website about grammar, and we may get plenty to read, in books or articles, to manage at school or other language courses.…
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Grapevine: Heebeecheeche and other capers
I don’t know about anyone to have visited everywhere in person, so I thought there could be folks into our game. ■More
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Grapevine: Vaulters and mergers
If you don’t make it with a new word and stumble, you act as in a cloud of well familiar bubbles. You do not look around in amazement: you know…
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Grapevine: 3 gloves, to that time
It was in the woods Huck heard that strange noise them ghosts make, when they have something on mind they can’t make themselves understood about. Except I don’t believe in…
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Grapevine: Four of them things
I’ve asked Jim if he believes in witches. He says there sure ain’t any in Vermont where he lives ’cause they can’t fly in snow storms, so they’d need anoraks…
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Four corners of the world
If we score 3 out of 4, the idea is probably natural for us. We may compare our answers with family, friends, or other people, to see if the results…
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Bibliography
The language story entire is five books, inclusive of a flexion framework, and about more than two languages. The author has made observations on language as really spoken and written,…
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10.3. Form Relativity practice
The grain of sand did one hour of thinking about composite things a day, and appreciated the activity as emotionally valid. As the 60 minutes were not immaterial, the faculty…
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10.2. The relative Progressive
Our cognitive variables and frames for grammatical time may complement one another: Modal verbs close their frames with auxiliary HAVE, whereas real-time frames open with the same auxiliary. We remember,…
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10.1. Grammar 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. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt | If I had…
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Chapter 10. Form relativity galore
If we guess or suppose, Past forms refer to the Present, and Present forms refer to the Future. It is only the anchored Past to remain in the grammatical Past.…
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9.4. Modal Relativity practice
The westerly wind could perceive something indivisible and intermediate about time. Well, there always would be a present moment to be the only present. This only present wouldn’t be anywhere…
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9.3. Detail on Modal structures
The natural economy and efficiency of human minds for language continues to show with Modal expression. Ancillary time can be only hypothetical in questions, and it would be theory twice,…
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9.2. Theory time and the Modal Net
Real-time cognitive frames close on time extents. Modal frames close on objects of thought. It must be that theory time is not the same as real time to human minds,…
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9.1. Auxiliary HAVE and Modal syntax
Let us now say there shows a theory fruit that has a stalk. Our Modal frame can be open. We might say, the use for the stalk is an open…
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Chapter 9. To tell the fashion in valuable time
Modal verbs do not narrate the real time. Their manner is relative to real time, as they mediate between the grammatical Time and Aspect. Their Past forms may tell the…
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8.2. Practice for all grammatical Aspects
3. The bumblebee had wished for the whole meal opportunity since Friday last. 4. The katydid wanted a new aureate bib, to match his figured bib of old. 7. The…
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8.1. Earthling basic cognitive variable
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.…
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Chapter 8. A Progressive and Perfect regard
When the reference for time is singular, the cognitive time frame is closed, and the variable can be {ON} or {IN}. All Perfect tenses make a dual time reference and…
