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# Grammar Across Languages

6 topics in Languages, in the order they build on each other.

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- [Word Order and Question Forms](https://lightmysky.com/learn/languages/word-order-and-question-forms-mt_aY-pVRzyEz): Languages put the parts of a sentence in different orders, and each has its own way of turning a statement into a question. Learn the order the new language uses and how it marks a question, and you can build sentences you have never heard.
- [Talking About Time: First Tenses](https://lightmysky.com/learn/languages/talking-about-time-first-tenses-mt_6526HcZG0R): Say when something happened. A language can mark time by changing the verb, by adding a helper word, or by leaving it to a time word, and the new language does it in its own way.
- [Gender, Case and Noun Classes](https://lightmysky.com/learn/languages/gender-case-and-noun-classes-mt_NavTs37V06): Many languages sort nouns into classes and make the words around them agree, or change a noun's ending to show its job in the sentence. Learn what the new language sorts, and what has to match what.
- [Joining Ideas: Clauses in Another Language](https://lightmysky.com/learn/languages/joining-ideas-clauses-in-another-language-mt_Vf6M9DJmW7): Move past short sentences: relative clauses, reported speech, and the words that hang one idea off another. Every language has its own rules about what joining does to word order.
- [How Languages Cut Up Time](https://lightmysky.com/learn/languages/how-languages-cut-up-time-mt_lCx2JzFUeD): Tense is not the whole story. Languages also mark whether an action was finished, repeated, or going on at the time, and choosing between two past forms is usually a decision about that rather than about when.
- [Saying What Might Be: Mood and Modality](https://lightmysky.com/learn/languages/saying-what-might-be-mood-and-modality-mt_IIgSDzD2a9): Talk about what is possible, wished for, or required rather than what is the case. A language carries this with modal verbs, with conditional forms, or with a separate mood that has its own endings.