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正常英語Normal English。指平時大家學習使用的英語。
基本英語Basic English。指從正常英語中精簡提煉後的核心英語
http://ogden.basic-english.org/texts/lbe1.html
http://ogden.basic-english.org/texts/lbe.html
CHAPTER THREE
The Rules
Reminder List of Basic Detail
1．名次單複數，物主代詞， 翻身代詞等（men's, their, ourselves, mine）；
2．詞性轉變（a light color淡色 / a light touch輕觸）。
3．比較級的規則變化和不規則變化：-er, -est : more, most; less, least; better, best; worse, worst; farther, farthest or further, furthest.
4．後綴-ly 的構詞：possibly, probably, certainly 以及：angrily, simply等.
5. 用not構成否定，進而使用un- 的否定意義。
6. 用 -er, -ing, -ed 結尾構成新詞。(a) 新的名詞: the whistling of the farmer; (b) 新的形容詞: the damaged end of the sloping roof; the end has been damaged; the roof is sloping
7. 將單詞組合形成複合詞。postcard, overseer, beeswax, upside dawn, looking glass, good-looking, left-handed, 等
8. 使用語義延伸：the leg of a chair, the seed of an idea.
http://ogden.basic-english.org/texts/lbe4.html
Chapter Four
The Simplification of Grammar
語法的簡化。
Basic leaves such detail till a later stage. After all, people learned to speak and write their native language very effectively long before there were grammar rules to explain to them bow it was done. Basic gives only practical rules that help a beginner to get results. It gives him a straight, an orthological start. It saves him from broken English by not teaching him verbs like "break." Even if he is prevented by circumstance from going on to wider English in good time, he can always handle pocket English grammatically with his Basic kit. And he can do this without having grammatical terminology mentioned to him at all unless you want to use it.
簡易語法。“我們隻準備練習18個動詞的語法變化。”這就避免了平常學英語開始第一年就滿滿的語法學習避免了這兒那兒都是錯誤的現象。
基本英語學習者在會使用‘say’以後才會學習‘announce’或者‘advertise’。
"I'm only expected to drill on 18 verbs."
This comes as a relief from the average first-year course with its tedious memory load and endless opportunities for errors which the teacher must correct.
The Basic beginner doesn't try to use announce or advertise until he can handle the plain verb say.
Only experience with language teaching makes one see what manipulatory problems can arise with simple-seeming verbs like water, look, think, and warm, and what a sound plan it is to keep the first two and thought to noun uses and their extensions in the system, and warm to an adjective.
On the other hand, teachers of language have grown so used to wrong past tenses of verbs like bind, to omissions of the verb to be in places where it is needed, to confusions over where to include the sign of the infinitive and the article and to the complete frustrations of beginners, over the mysteries of the English preposition that they often don't believe such troubles can be avoided. They need demonstrations of the effectiveness of teaching texts like The Basic Way to English and Learning the English Language, with results too good to be explained away on the grounds that the teacher is an expert and the class particularly gifted or industrious.
很自然，開頭沒學好的學生，自己知道基礎不牢，也知道自己這方麵努力學習好幾年，當聽到要再回過頭去學習基礎詞匯和簡單句型始時會感到不高興。但是，他們越聰慧就越快地意識到這些由廣泛使用的單詞組成的陳述句型正是他們真正需要的。
Naturally, students of the language who have had a bad start with English but know they have invested years of study in it at first may feel dismay at being turned back to a small vocabulary and simple sentences. But the more intelligent they are the more readily they come to see that drill with common statement patterns built up of widely useful words is what they need. An able surgeon from Peru will ask for three weeks of Basic structure pat- terns so that he can present a paper on obstetrics at the medical school where he is visiting. The medical terminology he has in common with the doctors he is to address. It is the frame-work of simple English statement that he needs, and he finds with relief that Basic can give it to him.
語言描述具體東西和事件，一開始就說有用的而不是學些空洞的東西。 主謂賓機構用具體動詞加實物表述（giving/getting/tutting/getting）。抽象的東西壓後接觸。
