Author: Teresa Pelka

• 7.1. Practce for the heart and mind

  “You seem to be this most daily of creatures”, said the butterfly. The dayfly agreed. “Nothing that has become can be truly eternal anyway, as it had a beginning”, it…

  

• Chapter 7. Time in the mind and heart

  Some 200 years ago, there were no words or phrases as spatialization or a cognitive variable, but there were language uses as here: The advice nearest to my heart and…

  

• 6.5. Grammatical target time and frame

  His parents gave up on kindergarten. When Ms. Duncan suggested playing the musical chairs, Art threw in three left hand gloves. One of them belonged to Ms. Duncan. Despite the…

  

• 6.4. More practice: the frame, variable, and form

  2. The hedgehog hid the apples from the bird in a good jar with a lid. 3. The rabbit strew the cashews for the jabiru, and went on making his…

  

• 6.3. Exercises: the Aspect and the frame

  1. The motmot had completely befallen for a piece of fresh stollen. 2. The skylark found nothing to outbid the bit of cosmos with a squid. 5. The golden frog…

  

• 6.2. Aspect variable and time frame

  Madame Règle is not a systematic person at all. Her choice on scarves sure depends on some totally unpredictable factor, just as the exact time for lunch, for which you…

  

• 6.1. Our linguistic gravitation

  Time extents, Present or Past, do not depend on the Aspect, Simple or Perfect. To express own thought well, we need the cognitive ground and time frame. The matter can…

  

• Chapter 6. To choose own path in time

  There are no universal principles to design between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple. We may learn many grammar rules, and yet we are always going to need own…

  

• 5.3. Practice: real syntax and more words

  We can tell abbreviated “is” from “has” only by their contexts, as both get shortened to ’s. Abbreviated verb forms are much in use in American English. We learn telling…

  

• 5.2. Practice: symbolic cues and real syntax

  We exercise the target grammatical time with symbolic cues, gather language patterns from pieces, and then figure on pieces from symbolic cues. All along, we form the answers in our…

  

• 5.1. The language logic so far

  We can reason, the Aspect makes one type of logic, because we cannot be {IN} an area of a cognitive map, without being {ON} a cognitive ground; likewise, we can…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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,…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 2.1. More words in the Fields

  Verbs give us three fields and — three forms of the verb. Forms are not the same as fields. We begin with simple practice on forms first and second, consciously…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 1.1. Fields of Time: basic practice

  We may think about mountains, oceans, or the cosmos as well, because the exercise is to imagine language form in fields generally. Language learning does not need limitation. The simple…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• Part 2. Towards the time frame

  “Future in the Past” or “Unreal Past”? The Simple against the Perfect, and the Simple versus the Progressive, we make out a time frame. Devices as the Modal Net and…

  

• Part 1. Towards the grammatical Aspect

  We draw conclusions from natural language acquisition and begin with verbs, to be, to have, to do, and the verb form will. Part 1 works verb syntax for the Simple,…