After you throw a small, red ball, while you sing, you should stamp your feet loudly, and you should clap your hands energetically, if it’s still daytime.
no
yes, the singing goes with the stamping and clapping
can you tell which it is with intuition? like if someone said it to you, do you know what you’d think they meant? i don’t think you should worry about figuring this detail out with grammar rules right now.
If someone said it to me I think I would but probably due to stuff like putting emphasis on certain parts when they talk and what not. Intuitively, I thought singing goes with the red ball being thrown.
Ok. I’ll move onto part three then and look at those articles on infinitives you shared earlier.
Uhh. I don’t know. If desired, I could probably write down my thought processes as I do a level.
I just glanced at a level I haven’t beat yet (and still haven’t as I write this) and I would roughly say my process playing through the game has been:
1.) Do random stuff, read text, figure out what’s going on in the level
2.) After getting a feel for the level, really read the text blocks and where they are
3.) Levels imply what they want you to do. Trust it. Most of the time they hint at what they want done. The puzzle is figuring out what they want done. So step 3 is figure out what the level is implying to beat it.
4.) Try and solve the puzzle.
5.) If you still haven’t solved it, give it a little more time and then re-judge if there is another way this puzzle can be approached. Keep repeating until beaten.
That’s it really. I would add to it that while I do break the level into parts. I’m usually breaking the whole idea I feel the level is implying into parts. I think the level wants me to do X for a solution. Ok so what are all the steps to get X to work? Well I need “rock is push” for example, ok. The blocks “rock” “is” and “push” are in terrible spots, so I’ll focus on getting those things together before thinking of the rest of the puzzle.
EDIT:
So to answer your question: I could probably note down some stuff I’ve noticed, but strategy is the same as from when I started I feel. No real conscious adjustments to how I approach the game. I’ve just played a good bit every day, so I feel more comfortable with the game and with how things work.
Any problems or just busier recently?
Mmm. A bit of both. I was very busy near the end of last week and then this week I just got sick near the start of it. Getting sick made it hard to do the sentence analysis and stuff. I didn’t know how hard it actually was for me versus how much of it was difficulty focusing because I was sick. I think I had covid? Tested negative but I had it before and it felt the same. Idk.
I did finish reading the article yesterday. I started feeling better today. I spent most of my time in bed just playing more Baba. I beat 211 levels at 75 hours.
I’m going to work on the sentence analysis for part 3 and 4 now. I’ll try and not spend too much time on any sentence and note down any confusions I have.
Part 3 Sentence Analysis, ~55 minutes:
Running fast isn’t fun
I don’t want to stand on my porch when it’s wet.
Swimming after work is too tiring.
John gets sweaty when he does his exercise routine.
I gave him gifts.
I love to throw boomerangs to myself.
When a movie is boring, I stop watching.
I like reading non-fiction books out of order.
My broken speakers don’t work for making sound.
FYI, working at the CIA is cooler than the FBI.
Hmm. It could be because I’m tired and I’m still recovering, but the practice for part 4 is confusing me. Here’s the first sentence:
John pet his dog and cat with vigor.
- {<John> <pet> <his dog>} and {<cat> <with vigor>}Its mainly the outlining stuff. Is that outline fine? Is their necessarily a “correct” outline? I assume not. Its just a way to organize the important parts of the sentence right? I think since its kind of open ended I’m unsure as to what should be in an outline of a sentence.
“to throw” is an infinitive.
where did you get the term “reference adjective”?
Can you list all non-finite verbs in this sentence and their types? (The article’s term “verbal” means “non-finite verb” but I don’t usually use “verbal” anymore.)
This sentence needs an implied word.
Check other people’s solutions and see if that helps with anything.
This isn’t correct. You’re saying there are two clauses. But is there a verb in the second clause?
From your article. From Fallible Ideas - Grammar:
Reference adjectives are similar to pronouns, but they’re adjectives like “my”. In “John liked his job.”, the adjective “his” refers to “John” and means “John’s”. (These adjectives are also possessive.)
Its in part 3, under the section References.
Oh OK. It’s not a standard term and I forgot about it. It’s not very important/necessary but it makes sense. For words like “his” and “my” the dictionary says “possessive determiner” which is fine but neither of those terms specifies that it refers to something else like a pronoun does. FYI, “determiner” is a sub-category of adjective – a type of adjective. Some people may claim otherwise but ignore them.
Proadjective is another made-up term that would make reasonable sense (meaning “like a pronoun but an adjective”. the “pro” part means “in place of”).
However, “him” isn’t any type of adjective. The dictionary just says “pronoun”.
From Purdue Owl - Infinitives :
Be sure not to confuse an infinitive—a verbal consisting of to plus a verb—with a prepositional phrase beginning with to, which consists of to plus a noun or pronoun and any modifiers.
I did read this initially but I didn’t take it too seriously, I guess? I don’t know. So going forward to + a verb should always be treated as an infinitive (with possible rare exceptions I assume)?
To fix that one then:
I love to throw boomerangs to myself.
Ok. For that one I think I just got confused. I think that sentence needs an implied word? Here’s my second attempt:
I gave him gifts.
My broken speakers don’t work for making sound.
FYI, working at the CIA is cooler than the FBI.
Ok. I initially thought that, but I felt like it made sense without implied words and I didn’t want to do more than necessary.
There isn’t a verb in the second “clause”. I think because the time I’ve spent on this has been kind of sporadic I forgot that and can also join together things other then clauses. So:
John pet his dog and cat with vigor.
{<John> <pet> <his dog and cat> <with vigor>}.
pet - verb phrase
John - subject phrase
his dog and cat - object phrase
with vigor - prepositional phrase modifying pet
This is incorrect in terms of grammar and meaning. For meaning, what is the thing the person loves? Is it the action of throwing (with some modifiers like it’s not just throwing anything) or is it an object (boomerangs)? For “to myself”, if it modifies “love” then it is not modifying the throw, so the boomerang could be thrown to anyone or anywhere.
Look up “broken”. And DO, DOES, DID + bare infinitive | Grammaring
Yes.
“FYI” modifies the whole clause. the clause is led by the verb, “is”, so more or less equivalently “FYI” modifies “is”.
yes and it contains another prepositional phrase, “at the FBI”, which modifies “working”.
OK much better. I’d also do this:
<his <dog and cat>>
The “his” applies to the whole group “dog and cat”.
Hmm. Is it something like this?:
The only other thing I can think of is from your comment is that its just to throw thats a noun and boomerang is a sort of modifier? I don’t know how that works though.
Broken - From merriam-webster:
broken - adjective
violently separated into parts : shattered
: damaged or altered by or as if by breaking (see break entry 1): such as
Maybe this second definition?
break - verb, break entry 1 from merriam-webster:
1
a
: to separate into parts with suddenness or violence
broke a plate
Break the chocolate bar in half.
b(1)
: to cause (a bone) to separate into two or more pieces : fracture
broke her femur
(2)
: to fracture a bone of (a bodily part)
the blow broke her arm
(3)
: to dislocate or dislocate and fracture a bone of (the neck or back)
c
: to cause an open wound in : rupture
break the skin
d
: to cut into and turn over the surface of
break the soil
e
: to render inoperable
broke his watch
So broken is a form of the verb break?
Ok. So, looking up, a bare infinitive is an infinitive without to. So in the sentence work would be an infinitive there.
Yes!
Interesting. I’d recommend New Oxford dictionary as the first one you check for grammar. I think it’s better at parts of speech. It’s in Apple’s Dictionary app or on Google:
It’s common to have non-finite verbs after verbs as objects. It comes up a lot. You’ll also sometimes see them after each other, also as objects, in a chain.
Try this sentence:
Tomorrow I will have been waiting for a month!
Non-finite verbs are verbals. Verbals consist of gerunds, participles, and infinitives.
Tomorrow I will have been waiting for a month!
So looking up on google I got this for have:
used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood.
been:
past participle of be.
So should “have been” be treated as one word here?
Also I guess New Oxfords dictionary (googles dictionary) doesn’t have a definition for “for”?
Looks like a bug. Apple’s dictionary has it:
No. You never need to do that with verbs. It’s most useful for proper nouns like “Elliot Temple”.
You didn’t say what “waiting” is the object of. I think you mean it’s the object of “will”? But the thing I will is not waiting.
Tomorrow I will have been waiting for a month!
have is the object of will. been is the object of have. waiting is the object of been.
The thing I will is have. The thing I have is been. The thing I’ve been is waiting.
Or put another way, the thing I will is “have been waiting”. The lead of that group is “have”. The thing I will have is “been waiting”. The lead of that group is “been”, and the thing I will have been is “waiting”.
“will” is a finite verb. “have” is an infinitive. “been” is a past participle. “waiting” is a gerund.
Does that make any sense to you?
Also try looking at this and see if it helps but don’t try to read everything and just give up if it’s not working. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia including a bunch of the links in the first paragraph.
@LMD I think you understand this right? You could share how you understand it if you know how to explain that.
Mhm. Well. It makes sense to me when you point it out and like reading about this stuff. Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing this with lots of days apart (though I should be good to do it consistently again) but I’m having issues making sense of that while looking at sentence. Or, another way to put it, my issue is identifying those things in a sentence.
Non-finite verbs don’t conjugate for number and person (pov). They don’t function as the main verb in a clause.
~yeah, I looked at the examples and they make sense when pointed out to me, but when you ask me to go and figure it out I get confused.
You need more practice over time.
Yeah that makes sense. Should I go ahead and finish the part 4 sentence practice with the marking of phrases and clauses and the question based analysis?
