COLORS CAN HELP READ AND LEARN
Some verb forms can work as head verbs as well as auxiliaries. Our head verbs tell the activity or faculty. Auxiliaries always require another verb. We can use a color code to make learning easier.
APPENDIX 1. VERBS
Verbs tell activities, faculties, or states, as to work, to think, or to be. They may do this in four Aspects. The Appendix also tells about the three verb forms, verb irregularity, the infinitive, the participle, and Modal verbs.
APPENDIX 2. IRREGULAR VERBS: HIGH AND LOW VOWEL QUALITIES
Irregular verbs are easier to remember, when we think about vowel patterns. Here, we mind high and low vowels.
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begin |
began |
begun |
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sing |
sang |
sung |
|
spring |
sprang / sprung |
sprung |
APPENDIX 3. IRREGULAR VERBS: BACK AND FRONT VOWEL QUALITIES
We can think about back and front vowel qualities too, learning irregular verbs. We can also regard regional American English.
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choose |
chose |
chosen / chose |
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shine |
shone / shined |
shone / shined |
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wake |
woke / waked |
woken / woke / waked |
APPENDIX 4. PATTERNS FOR ALL ASPECTS
We can visualize language forms and use a color code.
THE PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE INTERROGATIVE:
Have I been writing?
LANGUAGE MAPPING SUMMARY
We can associate grammar and human natural mapping, as with geography and travel.
We humans live on Earth. We usually view land or seas as extents. We give at least psychological borders to areas in which we are. We perceive routes and ways to places. We happen to be at landmarks and places.
Such are natural human variables for space, in English.
We can use them for the grammatical Aspect.
