''The Skill Tree'' lists the skills and example sentences for the fourteen types of skills you're about to learn on Glossika.
When you've completed the sequence of specific sentences, the icon of the skill tree will turn from gray to different colors. Simply click the icon, and you'll get more details about the skill you've learned with.
Stative
In this skill, you'll learn how to talk about states (adjectives), being something (predicates), and expressing other acts of speech and thought. Examples:
I am/feel good.
The book is heavy.
I speak English.
I am a teacher.
I am at school.
Existential
In this skill, you'll learn how to say that something exists and to show possession. Examples:
there's a tree / there was a tree
there are trees / there were trees
He has a car.
He has a sister.
A car has four wheels.
Direction
This skill covers how to discuss movement to or from a location.
I ride a bus to work.
He's walking home from class.
An athlete runs toward the finish line.
Causative
This skill includes a large number of verbs that change the state of an object. Causative verbs also act upon or request other people to do (or become) something.
Close the door, please. --> causes the door to become closed
Increase the volume. --> causes the volume to increase
Buy this! --> causes money to be spent
Actions
This skill includes verbs of motion and other actions.
Stand up.
I kicked a ball.
I eat an apple every day.
Amount
This skill covers how to discuss quantities and amounts.
There are five books on the table.
The book costs fifty dollars.
That's a lot of money to spend on a fork.
Negative
Now let's take everything you've learned so far and practice how to say them in the negative!
don't/doesn't do (verb negation)
never do (adverb negation)
do nothing (object negation)
Complex Verbs
With this skill, you'll learn to use the potential mood to discuss whether something is possible and/or likely to occur. You'll learn phrases like:
I can/will do
I could/should/would do
I may/must/might do
I need/have/supposed to do
Timed Actions
Here, you'll learn to communicate more nuanced notions of time and to compare the time between events. You'll learn phrases like:
about to do
just did
keep/continue doing
Valencies
With this skill, you'll add additional arguments to verbs — potentially whole clauses. Arguments help to flesh out the meaning of a verb in particular sentence and include things like subjects (who does an action), direct objects (what receives the verbs action), and indirect objects (to or for whom an action is done.)
help somebody to X
give X to somebody
He and I often go running together.
We see/meet each other.
Complex Causative
In this skill, you'll learn to communicate more nuanced causative ideas, such as attempts to do/avoid doing something.
try/fail to do
succeed at doing
avoid doing
make/have somebody do something
Complex Time
In this skill, you'll learn to express more nuances of time, such as communicating that you've had an experience or clarifying the starting and stopping points of an action.
do one thing after/before another
do something again and again
do something while doing something else
be doing something X when something Y happened
start/finish/stop doing
to have done something before
Evidence
In this skill, you'll learn various nuances of evidentiality:
It was supposed to have happened.
It seems to have happened.
It must have happened
Reasoning
Many actions are done for a reason, or perhaps in spite of one. You'll learn about that sort of stuff here. These generally tend to be longer sentences, and include things like:
whether or not something happened
the reason why something happened
because something happened