Contents for the course UNIT 1. Basic Concepts: What is Grammar?
UNIT 2. The Nominal group
UNIT 3. The system of determination: determinatives
UNIT 4. The adjectival group: talking about attributes
UNIT 5. The verbal group
UNIT 6. The adverbial group: how, where and when
UNIT 7. The Prepositional group: spatial, temporal and other relationships
UNIT 8: Clause structure
UNIT 9. The clause complex
UNIT 10. Thematic and information structures of the clause
Objetives
The intention of this course is to improve the studentsÆ command and understanding of the English language through explicit analysis of English grammar. By the end of the course, the student is expected to know the structure of English clauses and be familiar with syntactic analysis.
The course will start with the description of the smallest units of analysis attending to the flexive and lexical formation of words to continue with the analysis of simple and complex sentences.
