Bare bones

4.2.2.1. Bare bones

Since languages are complicated, it helps to begin by restricting yourself to a small subset of the more essential sentence patterns. These then serve as a skeleton. Some complexity cannot be avoided even at the outset. Our goal is to keep it manageable.

Subsections

4.2.2.1.1 Learning to understand sentences that identify and describe

4.2.2.1.2 Combining descriptive words with names for objects

4.2.2.1.3 Simple instructions

4.2.2.1.4 Identification and description of actions and experiences

4.2.2.1.5 Understanding who is doing it to whom.

4.2.2.1.6 You and me and he or she or somebody

4.2.2.1.7 To whom, where, with what, with whom, from where, to where, for whom and whose?

4.2.2.1.8 More on possessors and possessions

4.2.2.1.9 The manner of action

Context for this page:

Section: 4.2.2.1. Bare bones
In section: 4.2.2. Learning to understand simple descriptions and ins...
In section: 4.2. Sentence patterns you need to be able to understan...
In chapter: Chapter 4. Ideas for vocabulary and sentence patterns to lear...
In on-line book: Kick-starting Your Language Learning: Becoming a basic speaker through fun and games inside a secure nest, by Greg Thomson
In document collection: Essays on Field Language Learning, by Greg Thomson
In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 11 September 1997