D-10.08 Apply (Present, Past, Future) Grammar to Summarizing Fantasy

Unit 4 of the Original Scenario, Volume Three: English Grammar in Context: Summary & Review: Present, Past, & Future (“The Stopwatch: A Fantasy Story”), pages 52-57 6 pages Who It’s For: (Self) Teachers & Helpers at Advancing to (High-) Advanced Proficiency Levels Who Enjoy Practicing Grammar in Imaginative, Speculative, Fictional Contexts  Why It’s Useful: What more flexible context to practice sentence-core (verb-phrasing)grammar in than science fiction?  Past-time sentences can appear in backdrop portrayal and narrative. The wording of dialog and thoughts can optimize use of the Present Tenses.  And Modal-Verb + Future-Time discourse can express speculation and predictions about what’s not yet known. This is what happens in a greatly-manipulated, still (or again) timely version of “A Kind of a Stopwatch,” a Season 5, Episode 5 episode of the classic, fantastic TV Series, the Twilight Zone.  Pause a moment to contemplate what you might do with a stopwatch that could f