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See and discuss

I would not expect a professional grammarian to shout out, unless for reasons linguistic. :) Naturally, I do not mean shouting at people. My point is that we humans work minds and hearts. There is an...

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Try something

It is up to us what business we have with grammar. We would be unable to think or speak without grammar; it is reasonable to think about a good business with it. Let us consider the student–teacher...

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Where from?

  There has been much talk about American English in ancestral terms: researchers have analyzed speech sounds and ‘derived’ them with particularity suggestive of the Pygmalion: … I’ll take it down...

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Feelings!

There is something you do not really have in natural languages: stative verbs. You do not get enumerations or listings of words to memorize, as from the British Council, for example. What you have in...

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Relax

  If we wanted to join all pages of all grammar books, the grammatical script would not end anywhere we know. The matter could not be about ending it. The point is in selecting agreeable guidance and...

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Common sense

Human history has not been much reasonable. Common sense became a revolutionary term in 1765. :) THOMAS PAINE COMPLETE WORKS – ULTIMATE COLLECTION – Common Sense, Age of Reason, Crisis, The Rights of...

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Book information

The book and the grammar method have not been sponsored or corroborated by an American or other authority, organization, as well as any individual. The content as well as choice on appended material...

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Parameters and behaviorism

Noam Chomsky proposed his Language Acquisition Device to explain human language learning. It is true that people acquire languages most flexibly till 14 years old. It is true that people could not...

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Chapter 9. To tell the fashion in valuable time

  Modal verbs can mediate the way we tell about matters. Modal mediation is often more logical. For example, when we say the verbs be and have may build the Progressive and Perfect tenses, we exclude...

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Chapter 10. There is relativity in time

Modal verbs have showed how language form may take us to more than one time extent. Could we integrate the Modal relativity with guidance on the Unreal Past or the Conditional? There has been much...

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Grammar is always a project

  Travelers in Grammar will remain always a project. It does not mean the books and courses never end. Let us think, what is grammar? Wiktor Jassem quotes Paul Postal:   “…a language is an infinite set...

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