Author: Teresa Pelka

Chapter 5. Let us make own paths with time

To make own paths with language and time, we need to decide if we affirm, ask a question, or deny. We may think about something usual as a strawberry, to work the Affirmative, Interrogative, or Negative. Our strawberry is more of a theory at times, as the blue in the Mind Practice. ■More
4.2. Practice: mapping the Aspect

Imagination is an ability to envision, to form an image. Without such ability, we would be unable to prefigure on things. We may begin with mind maps for our physical whereabouts, our every day, and our lives, gradually to move from thought about place into that about time. ■More
4.1. The idea of travel in grammar

Language is not a predetermined reality. 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 to what has happened, and think about things accomplished at the end. Our thought has grammar. ■More
Chapter 4. Aspect cognitive variables

Humans naturally build mind perspectives for neighborhoods or vicinity, in familiar settings. Since the very beginning, people have lived in places that allow the horizontal plane: to sit, have meals, sleep; read, write, or paint. Human grammar has evolved on planet Earth. ■More
3.4. Practice for the shape of time

Metalanguage is the style to talk about language, as about nouns, verbs, or tenses. Most of us know metalanguage from school or individual study; we only may not be used to the specialist term, “meta-language”. To get along at school, we need to be metalinguistic. ■More
3.3. The big chart for three persons and paths

It is good to make a big picture, to integrate own ability. We put together the Aspect — the Simple, Progressive, and Perfect — with all personal pronouns, and in all three fields of time, the Future, Present, and Past. This way we know all there is for us to gather, before we take to…
3.2. The person ‘you’

The pronoun ‘you” has evolved into the same shape for the singular and plural in English. The development needs not mean contestation. We people simply each are own self. We couldn’t swap bodies, for example. Imagine Aristotle as he chats with Plato after parachuting. ■More
3.1. Field and river, the grammatical Aspect

There is no single landscape all people reasonably could be advised always to bear in mind. With life, grammar, and landscapes as well, we need to regard and decide the Aspect on our own. The Latin aspectus meant “a seeing, looking at”. ■More
Chapter 3. Time is like a river: verb patterns

Everyday language has phrases as a flow of time, a course of events: we people happen to have such impressions about life. Grammatical patterns for words and time may look a lot to think about at first, and this is why we begin with a good glimpse. ■More
2.1. More words in the Fields

A brief note on basic and infinitive shapes of verbs can help us work with grammar resources.
Chapter 2. The future needs the present

We can predict the future only to an extent, because it all the time takes on form or becomes — in our Present, — and there is always more than one factor to human reality. We can use Present grammatical forms in English to talk about the future, and “will” is one of such words.…
1.2. Mind practice: thinking on purpose

Silent thought is a great friend of language skill. We do not know a language really, if it does not belong with that inner competence. It is with practice that the brain together with mind makes associations for work on language trace features solely. ■More
1.1. Fields of Time: basic practice

What do we do, to put words in fields of time? We join our thinking about the grammatical time and the grammatical person.
Chapter 1. We can plan on time as in fields

The way we people use language can show some of that human and intellectual skill altogether, of the human inner logic generally — to organize own thought, speech, and writing Grammatical time can work as in fields we name the Past, Present, and Future. ■ More
Language form, as with cats and dogs

To learn Aspect and infinitive or participle syntax, virtual words are simply the best.
Colors can help learn, read and write

We avoid color red, as it usually comes with prescriptive opinion on language.
Books and grammar method information

The method and the books reflect on the author’s own language acquisition and learning to include graduated university studies, philology, American English. The grammar began as Teresa Pelka’s spontaneous invention when she was a child, in early 1970s. ■More