We learn to perceive the nodal time:
B. The grain of sand did one hour of thinking about composite things a day, and appreciated the activity as emotionally valid. ■→More
Tag: Language economy
Balancing of linguistic features and information naturally to occur in language, as the short forms CAN’T or WON’T, for example.
10.1. UNREAL OR REAL TIME
No group and no Government can properly
prescribe precisely what should
constitute the body of knowledge with which true education
is
concerned.
— President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ■→More
CHAPTER 10. FORM RELATIVITY GALORE
With theory making, the verb form “HAVE” works as a syntactic device, an anchor to close the frame on time; and all the way, the form goes a step forward, in its target grammatical time reference. ■→More
9.3. DETAIL ON MODAL STRUCTURES
The Interrogative for Modals MAY, NEED, or MUST will confirm on our Modal net and syntactic HAVE as an anchor. ■→More
CHAPTER 8. A PERFECT AND PROGRESSIVE REGARD
Matters may never be what they seem, but they are what they look: the Perfect Progressive does merge the Perfect and the Progressive. All Perfect tenses have an open time frame. ■→More
1.2. MIND PRACTICE
It is much easier to make progress in language, if we learn to introspect and consciously give direction to own intellect. We may begin with exercise in awareness of own mind. More→