The pamphlets
The manual gives Phi's grammar its full account. These workbooks spend more time with the places where an example on its own is not quite enough. Read one straight through, or keep it open beside the manual with a pencil nearby.
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Relative clauses in Phi
The whole description before the noun: pre-nominal relative clauses from first principles to nested patterns, the errors English pulls you toward, and exercises with a full answer key.
Complementizers and embedded clauses in Phi
Thoughts within thoughts: three opener and closer pairs for statements, questions, and quotations, the reasoning that makes the closers necessary, and enough practice to make them reflex.
Adverbial clauses in Phi
The six clause relators that set one event against another: sequence, overlap, cause, purpose, and concession, every frame complete before its main clause, with the trailing-frame errors English invites and exercises with a full answer key.
Tense and aspect in Phi
One unchanging verb and seven small particles: past, future, and the five views of an event, drilled through all ten combinations, with the day's stations, the errors English invites, and exercises with a full answer key.
Pronouns and topic-drop in Phi
Three words of one shape for every person in the room: case from position, we built with a particle, miso and wiso for self and each other, ha and ra for pointing, and the art of the dropped subject, light when light is safe and explicit the moment two referents compete.
Nouns and classifiers in Phi
Building the phrase that finds the thing: the bare noun and what context carries, one quantity marker from lo to the exact count, the classifier's optional place, description and association before the noun, and possession inside the phrase and out.
Coordination in Phi
Three conjunctions and one particle for standing together: nela level and unranked, thona with both sides asserted, sola leaving the fork open, we adding alongside the established, and the scope choice between a joiner inside one sentence and a marker across two.
Evidentiality in Phi
Four particles for claimed source: direct perception, inference, report, and assumption. Practice moves from the snake at the well through questions, retelling, and an optional source journal.
Counting in Phi: the ternary numerals and the four natures
Three number-words, four group-words, four kinds of being — counting drilled to reflex, and then the harder skill: the honest about, where the sentence gets shorter as it gets truer.
How Phi names people
A name is a word someone carries: ne the spoken capital, kona the raised hand, three honorifics that announce relationship rather than rank — and the family register, where a name at rest is proof of presence.
Punctuation you can hear
Core Phi writes only periods. This pamphlet follows its spoken grammatical boundaries, teaches the twenty interjections, gives the counterpart-less marks to sentence structure, and tests what careful dictation can and cannot recover.
Source material beside Phi
How Phi uses vocabulary, transparent expressions, modules, and productive names while exact records, scripts, notation, testimony, and quotations remain in their own medium.
The three slots
Thirty-five particles arranged by scope: Slot 0 frames the utterance, Slot 1 keeps a fixed six-rank order, and Slot 2 nests around a constituent. Examples and exercises keep grammatical form separate from source credibility and moral character.
How Phi is written in Tengwar
A second hand for the same language: the fifteen consonant tengwar, the vowel tehtar that ride above and below them, and the one true invention — a hiatus rule that needs no vowel carrier at all, because Phi's own sound rules never leave it needing one.