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Tenses
The 16-cell time × aspect matrix and the nine tenses that actually carry the load, with structures, markers, examples and the errors worth memorizing. Key sentences read aloud on tap.
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Grammar
A map of the whole system: five sentence patterns, three clause types, non-finite verbs, the subjunctive, passives and modals. Built to parse long, hard sentences top-down.
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History
From a 449 landing on an island to the world's most spoken language: the Germanic base, the Norse and Norman inputs, the Renaissance Latin and Greek waves.
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