Academic Year/course:
2018/19
416 - Degree in English
27807 - English Grammar I
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2018/19
Subject:
27807 - English Grammar I
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
416 - Degree in English
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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4.1. Methodological overview
See "Learning tasks " and "Syllabus".
More information will be provided on the first day of class.
4.2. Learning tasks
The course includes the following learning tasks:
- Lectures.
- Practice sessions.
- Autonomous work and study.
- Assessment tasks.
4.3. Syllabus
The course will address the following topics:
- Introduction. What's grammar? National varieties. Standard and non-standard English. Register: variation according to use. Grammars of English.
- Topic 1. Grammatical units. Introduction to morphemes, words, phrases, and clauses.
- Topic 2. The structure of words. Inflection. Word formation: derivation, conversion, compounding. Minor types of word formation: reduplicatives, clippings, acronyms, blends.
- Topic 3. Introduction to word classes: Lexical words; function words; inserts; special classes of words: wh-words, single-word classes, numerals
- Topic 4. Lexical word classes: nouns; main verbs; adjectives; adverbs.
- Topic 5. Function word classes: determiners, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, adverbial particles, conjunctions.
- Topic 6. Phrases. Types, structure and function. Noun Phrases; adjective phrases; verb phrases; adverb phrases; prepositional phrases.
- Topic 7. Clauses. Major clause elements: S, V, O, P, A. Major clause patterns: intransitive, monotransitive, copular, ditransitive, complex transitive. Simple, compound, and complex sentences. Sentence types and discourse functions.