3.3. The big chart for three persons and paths

To integrate own ability, it is good to make a general, big picture. Let us put together the Simple, Progressive, and the Perfect, with all personal pronouns, and in all three fields of time. We may begin with making verb phrases for the FUTURE. Our head verb is to learn.

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In the FUTURE Field, the verb phrase remains the same for all grammatical persons. In all three Aspects, the Simple, Progressive, and the Perfect; all forms take on the auxiliary WILL.

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The feature —s keeps company to the third person singular, he, she, it. We have forms as learns, is learning, and has learned.

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The verb form “learned” is the same shape for the Simple, where it is the 2ND form, and for the Perfect, where it is the 3RD form. In all regular verbs, the 2ND or 3RD forms do not vary.

Before we reckon how to use the forms, let us practice their build:
■3.4. PRACTICE FOR THE SHAPE OF TIME.

■This text is also available in Polish.

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

by Teresa Pelka August 15, 2013July 15, 2024

Book format in preparation.

In the first part of the language journey, feel welcome to consider a picture for
■ the grammatical Past, Present, and Future;
■ the Simple, Progressive, and Perfect;
■ infinitive, auxiliary, and head verb forms;
■ the Affirmative, Interrogative, Negative, and Negative Interrogative;
■ irregular verbs and vowel patterns: high and low, back and front.
Third edition, 2025.

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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