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: Word form
Letter or speech sound form of morphological, semantic, and phonological properties.
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, PAST forms refer to the PRESENT, and PRESENT forms refer to the FUTURE. It is only the anchored PAST to stay in the PAST. Theory making is similar in Polish, Russian, French, and other languages:
if I was, si j’étais, gdybym był/a, если бы я был/а, wäre ich, etc.
Our language form relativity has nothing to do with ■→Whorfianism. ■→More
9.4. MODAL RELATIVITY PRACTICE
We "target" and "jump" grammatical time extents with Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and as about the Wester, the two Yellowlegs, or later the Tiny, we learn to keep own thinking against even unusual words: it is better for grammar to be mind-teasing, than mind-boggling. ■→More 
9.3. DETAIL ON MODAL STRUCTURES
Questions as mayn't you have done or mustn't you have done would be rare in American, and they might impress unfavorably, as superfluous or even incorrect. The preference is for patterns without syntactic HAVE, and we can try to explain this with human logic. ■→More
9.2. THE MODAL NET
We have considered two sides of a hypothetical fruit. Let us now think if we could arrive at the theory “net weight”: when we people make theories, it is usually to get to something real. ■→More
9.1. AUXILIARY HAVE AND MODAL SYNTAX
If we say that something is a fruit, it is a possible fruit, or maybe it must be fruit, but we do not know the kind, it is first of all our thought process we manage. Auxiliary HAVE can be quite some handle. ■→More
CHAPTER 9. TO TELL THE FASHION IN VALUABLE TIME
Modal verbs do not narrate the real time. Their manner is relative to real time, as they mediate between the grammatical Time and Aspect. The name "modal" comes from the Latin word "modus", meaning an extent or measure, too. ■→More
8.2. PRACTICE FOR ALL ASPECTS
We practice earthling proper egoism: we ignore cues that would not be properly "egoistic" and "gravitational":
The butterfly (kiss) the bee in the midst of her phiz, when he (see) the golden grit. ■→More
8.1. EARTHLING BASIC COGNITIVE VARIABLE
Planet Earth has been a natural habitat for millennia. In thousands of years, people to think what there is {ON} a map, have not denied plausibility for places {IN} areas, routes {TO} places, as well as locations {AT} them. Early childhood learning to talk has been getting along with learning to walk. Human postural control will favor one variable for the basis of all Aspects and tenses. ■→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
7.1. PRACTICE FOR THE HEART AND THE MIND
We practice deciding between the Simple and the Progressive, variables {ON} and {IN}. We exercise thought, and our answers may vary. ■→More
CHAPTER 7. TIME IN THE MIND AND HEART
There are many grammar books to tell about “stative” or “static verbs”; that we should never use them with the Progressive; that phrases as "I am loving" or "I am hating" are incorrect. In fact, such phrases do occur also in educated styles, and without the brain, the heart is just a muscle. ■→More
6.5. THE TARGET TIME AND FRAME
We use time frames and symbolic cues, to work as in the Mind Practice for the difference between the Simple and the Perfect. ■→More
6.4. MORE PRACTICE: THE GRAMMATICAL FRAME, VARIABLE, AND FORM
4. After some study of a number of ideas on the cosmos, she (picture) the humanity as an odd kind of fish in a series of still larger fish tanks. Early in the series, there (be) N any point to try bringing another fish tank to imagination. It (require) adding more fish tanks. ■→More
6.3. EXERCISES: THE ASPECT AND THE TIME FRAME
Mind practice for the Aspect and the time frame:
2. The skylark found nothing to outbid the bit of cosmos with a squid.
8. The spotted redshank bachelorette bewailed, and reset her buret for the bouncing bet. ■→More
6.2. ASPECT COGNITIVE VARIABLE AND TIME FRAME
Madame Règle is not a systematic person at all. The only regularity about her would be a small book she always carries fastened to her bag with a scarf, or actually a variety of scarves, of many colors and textures. The book is not the same book every day, and the choice of the scarf sure depends on some totally unpredictable factor, just as the exact time for lunch, for which you might want to assume the broad time frame of about sixty minutes to commence or not to happen altogether. ■→More
6.1. OUR LINGUISTIC GRAVITATION
Our time extents, PRESENT and PAST, do not change for punctuation. They do not change for the Aspect, Simple or Perfect, either. To continue our work on the two Aspects, we choose on the grammatical time frame. ■→More
5.3. PRACTICE: REAL SYNTAX AND MORE WORDS
Abbreviated verb forms are really much in use in American English. It is important to learn telling them. We first try the exercises in our thoughts, as in the Mind Practice. ■→More
5.2. PRACTICE: SYMBOLIC CUES AND REAL SYNTAX
We combine the Aspect and Time, to exercise target grammatical time. We think the answers: true learning is in the mind. ■→More
5.1. THE LOGIC SO FAR
We sum up on the grammar logic so far, and visualize Time with Aspect — for efficient language habits with target grammatical time. ■→More
CHAPTER 5. LET US MAKE OWN PATHS ABOUT TIME
Phrases as the the Affirmative, Interrogative or Negative may look rare or even strange, if we compare everyday language. Let us think about something usual as a strawberry, to work them out. ■→More
CHAPTER 2. THE FUTURE NEEDS THE PRESENT
humans have evolved grammars along with perception for three-dimensional space. There never has been really at hand any fourth or time independently dimension, to make language. The real time we people live in is always our PRESENT. The verb form "will" can map on the real-time FUTURE already in its PRESENT grammatical shape. ■→More
LANGUAGE FORM
We always need to know the language and the context, to see what the language form denotes: a picture of a cat is not a cat. To work on language form and syntax, we can use virtual words. We have two invented verbs, bimmo and thimo, and two invented nouns, phimo and rheemo. We use them only if and when we like. ■→More
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