theExact Word® adds a revolutionary piece to the language-arts curriculum to address mechanics in a logical, easy way. Nothing is "dumbed down." Easy means welcoming, fun, engaging. The logic makes grammar make sense.
theExact Word® does not criticize either past or current language-arts curricula. Nor try to replace what works. Enhancing the curriculum with language mastery allows teachers to concentrate upon literature, experimenting with writing, logical analysis, and discourse.
Blending of Both Approaches
theExact Word® genuinely contributes something new. Our technology reveals an inseparable connection between structure and meaning. Visit the colors which highlight context. The context patterns in English explain both the grammar and the generating of thought. This combination revolutionizes the eight-parts-of-speech approach without superseding it. Combining the traditional Latinate grammatical instruction with the best qualities of substance-oriented and outcome-based teaching gives teachers and facilitators a natural-language tool for tying structure to meaning.
This new technology reveals the logic in grammar and mechanics and eliminates all exceptions. If you can count to two, you can permanently master English grammar and tie it to meaning. theExact Word's® materials tie thought to an easily visualized flow of connection and unity in thought development.
In other words, theExact Word® fills in the gaps between existing writing programs and the unwieldy grammar that we inherited from Latin. For example, the National Writing Project, process writing, along with peer writing and review, all have earnestly and energetically targeted substance, visualization, and good writing principles as the means to upgrade language-arts instruction.
Good programs work, once the basics form a solid foundation. But, we have a communications crisis in the English-speaking world because in A.D. 597, 40-50 monks superimposed the Latin alphabet and grammar onto English, a language from a different language family. English-speakers have suffered ever since. For example, English does not add case, gender, or position inflections to identify meanings of words. Latin languages do. Portuguese, Italian, French, and Spanish carry the inflected endings added to individual words. English uses fixed-word order to create meaning. However, the Latin system of eight parts of speech do not really fit English. The terms, clause, phrase, subject, object, for example, have no explanation as a part of speech. English actually functions as a set of groups of words, combining in strings of thought. English has a relational structure based on fixed-word order. It has binary operations for groups of words. There are no exceptions. It's very easy. Once you see the thought patterns, and the grammatical logic of them, all the exceptions of the Latinate grammar disappear.
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