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 Form Relativity may render the Conditional or Sequence of tenses redundant, for “unreal” grammar to work in real time.

■Chapter 6
The Simple versus the Perfect: a cognitive frame for the grammatical time

■6.1. The open or closed grammatical time frame

■6.2. The Simple or the Perfect: the frame and cognitive mapping

■6.3. Exercises for the time frame

■6.4. Exercises for the frame and variable, ON or TO

■6.5. Exercises in target grammatical time

■Chapter 7
The Simple versus the Progressive: a cognitive extent for the grammatical Aspect

■7.1. Exercises, cognitive variables ON or IN

■Chapter 8
The Perfect Progressive, cognitive variable AT

■8.1. Earthling basic cognitive variable, ON

■8.2. Practice for all Aspects

■Content also available in Polish■

■Chapter 9
Modal verbs

■9.1. Modal Present or Past

■9.2. The Modal time frame: form relativity

■9.3. Detail on Modal structures

■9.4. Modal relativity practice

■Chapter 10
Language form relativity patterns overall

■10.1. The Conditional or Unreal Past: the relative frame

■10.2. Form relativity in the Progressive Aspect

■10.3. Workout for real-time talk

■10.4. More workout for real-time talk

■Appendixes
Materials extra for the entire course

■4. Patterns for all Persons and Aspects

■Color code for easier reading and learning

■USA civics (the grammatical article and speech part in Travel 3)

Let us not forget about the early, curious years

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

by Teresa Pelka January 23, 2021March 27, 2024

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 they are there. ■More

by Teresa Pelka January 23, 2021March 11, 2024

■Part 1

The world may never have seen her original handwriting, if her skill was taken for supernatural. Feel welcome to Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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