Colors can help learn, read and write

We begin our grammar journey with verbs, as in natural language acquisition and learning. Some shapes of time can work as head verbs or auxiliaries. Verb auxiliary roles are marked in green, and verb head roles are in color mauve.

When verbs head verb phrases, they tell that something or someone is or happens. When they are auxiliary, they always require another verb.

Auxiliaries can build language Aspects, as the Simple, Progressive, or Perfect, feel welcome to ■SUB-CHAPTER 3.1.

We could say,
I am a learner.
The form “am” is a head verb.

We also could say,
I am learning.
The form “am” is an auxiliary verb.

We could say,
I have a grammar book.
The form “have” is a head verb.

We could say,
I have learned grammar.
The form “have” is auxiliary.

In our language journey, pronouns and nouns are ink blue. Highlights are forget-me-not, blue. We avoid color red, as it usually comes with prescriptive opinion on language.

Naturally, everyone is welcome to devise own code.

■This text is also available in Polish.

Feel welcome to try colorful virtual words (!)

Language form, as with cats and dogs

Different languages have different ways to name objects of thought. We can say a dog in English; in German ein Hund, in French un chien, in Greek σκυλος, and in Russian собака — whereas at the same time and in all languages, a picture of a cat is not a cat. ■More

by Teresa Pelka August 10, 2013May 22, 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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