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GRAMMAR has two overlapping meanings:
1. It’s everything about how a language works, including syntax as a subset (correct order of words in sentences in order to make complete sense)
2. How words are inflected, conjugated & declined – according to aspect, degree, gender, mood, number, person, tense (11 Rules of Grammar)

Using CHART ⬇️  : for dialogue to go smoothly & with co-operation, speakers need to include listed below :
✔︎ one of the 3 verbs
✔︎ two of the 6 verbal persons (gender, person)
✔︎ three of the 9 verbal forms (time, mode, voice).
” That morning (t) the young man (g, p) drove (v) his new car to work.”

⛔️ If one of these categories is excluded when talking, or we leave out a category as part of the information that’s needed to make sense – then we destroy dialogue & create dispute.

◆ Here we’re given the Parts of Speech as a tool for growth. Included are key words of each grammatical form, which are related to the Thinking (level 2) function of T.E.A..
Each position is a numerical Fractal (having the property of self-similarity), considered the hidden order of Universal Truth. They are seen as similar but not identical concepts, the repetition of a basic subject applied to different areas of knowledge.

Ennea MEANING & USE of Grammar components:
1. Conjunction – a synthesis for unification & healing. Represents both Inclusion (‘and,  so‘) & Exclusion (‘or, but‘)
USE :  to make connections, tying words or ideas together.

2. Noun – basic drive for creativity & production, to achieve physical realization of ideas.
USE : (singular, plural, name, concept) allowing us to make generalizations from the particular “Not all groups are cohesive”

3. Verb – is about understanding, in relation to abstract concepts.
USE : represents awareness of things happening in time, a dynamic process of past, present & future
“She leapt into the pool”

4. Preposition – symbolizes imagination, the need to fantasize & dream.   USE : the mental/internal image of the personal relationship between oneself & other people, things or ideas
“The child ran way from his father”

5. Adjective – is about analysis, to distinguish one idea from another.
USE : precisely describes or qualifies the noun. This relates to & allows for refinement of understanding
“His loud laugh was annoying.”

6. Verbal Persons – stands for the drive to communicate, to explain, to relate to & with other people, to improve Self & others.
USE : (the subject) is the ability to make statements, by personalizing a time event or action  “The meal has been eaten”

7. Pronoun – pertains to initiative, to fight & to start something new.  USE : places nouns in relationship, establishing & modifying them “She was always late”

8. Adverb – is about organization, responsibility & duty; to assume responsibility for some social situation or group, problem or opportunity, & to organize or direct it until conclusion.
USE : modifies the verb, explains it through 8 questions that show its circumstances (where, when, how….) “He’s not very tall”

9. Verbal Forms – regards the impulse to actualize, engineer, invent, orchestrate, based on knowing what’s possible.
USE : place an action in perspective, like a plan (active, indicative, subjunctive) (MORE…. scroll way down)
“We are going home”
(Technical parts of each… scroll down to ‘Quality’)

NOTE: The number positions in this chart ⏫️ are in reverse order, to correctly align with ancient Number systems which reflect the dynamics of the Earth’s counter-clockwise daily rotation on its axis – if North is considered the ‘top’ or vantage point, which it usually is.

However, the Enneagram follows a tradition based on the invention of clocks (which occurred in the Northern hemisphere), copying the sun’s clock-wise shadow on sundials. We see the sun that way in relation to Earth’s anti-clockwise rotation – if we were looking down at the North Pole from space.  (More…. slide #4)

◆ Our personal number system is a description of the creative process – played out in cycles of day, year & precession of the equinoxes.
Looking from above at a galaxy or hurricane’s counter-clockwise swirl, we can superimpose the #6.

The form of the 6 also describes looping backwards on ourselves – the limitations of our mental consciousness, which effects our creativity.
See: Spiral Dynamics, Sept 2009

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