Human beings have evolved grammars along with perception for three-dimensional space. Speech and language belong with the estimable heights, widths, and depths or lengths, just as the human need for fresh water, air, good food, clothing, and a decent roof. Grammar is a basic human need. It is healthy to have a good business with grammar.
In this volume, feel welcome to consider a picture for
_ the Simple versus the Perfect;
_ the Simple versus the Progressive;
_ the Perfect Progressive & earthling basic cognitive variable;
_ Modal verbs & the Modal Net;
_ the Conditional, Unreal Past Ñ or language form relativity.
Our language form relativity has nothing to do with Whorfianism. It is an observation that language forms as Òif I wereÓ refer to the Present though their shape is Past. The phenomenon occurs in English as well as Polish, Russian, French, and other languages: if I was, si jՎtais, gdybym by_/a, ____ __ _ ___/_,wŠre ich, etc.
Third edition, 2022.
From inside the book:
It is not only grammar as here; it is standard and natural language, to associate feeling and thought with spatial variables. ÒHigh on emotionÓ or Òin the deepest of our thoughtsÓ, we need some notions of space, to reckon on time Ñ and feeling along with thought.
Some 200 years ago, there were no terms as spatialization or cognitive variables, but there were language uses as here, by James Madison, the 4th President of the United States.
ÒThe advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuatedÓ.
To associate language, thinking, feeling, and earthly or generally space is natural. What would feelings, thoughts, or works be Ñ without room? Importantly, we do not hold variables Perfect or Progressive for exclusive of the Simple for real time. In other words, the variables are not options, and our variable "on" (a cognitive extent, Simple) does not correspond with an option as off: there is no such grammatical Aspect, whereas the variables do not have any purpose other than Aspect efficient management in real time.
A logical set has much more to offer than prescriptive rules, for personal study and conversational contexts. We exercise thought on motifs from the Stagirite, one who pursued excellence and lived on Earth, ___ __.