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MODULE 0: COURSE OVERVIEW
0.1 Welcome
0.2 Introduce yourself on Padlet
0.3 Course technologies
0.4 Tutorials of the course site
0.5 Syllabus reading
0.6 How to get the best out of the course
0.7 Academic Success Support Resources
0.8 Precourse Survey
1. INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMAR
1.1 Defining Grammar
1.2 Tacit vs. Focal Grammar
1.3 Grammar vs. Usage
1.4 Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Grammar-1
1.5 Practice
2. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
2.0 Warm up questions
2.1 Standard English
2.2 Two major sources of variations
2.3 Diachronic Variations
2.4 Synchronic Variations of English
2.4.1 World Englishes
2.4.2 Regional dialects
2.4.3 Social dialects
2.4.4 Idiolect
2.5 Which variety of English to teach
2.6 The Grammar Debate
2.7 Quiz 1
3. MORPHOLOGY
3.1 Levels of linguistic analysis
3.2 Beyond sentences: Discourse analysis (optional)
3.3 What are words?
3.4 Words & Morphemes
3.5 Derivational Morphemes
3.6 Inflectional Morphemes
3.7 Morphemes: Summary
3.8 Other Word Formation Processes in English
3.9 Fun facts about English vocabulary
3.10 Unit Assessment (Quiz 2)
4. WORDS
4.1 Word Classes (Parts of Speech)
4.2 The open-class words
4.2.1 Nouns
4.2.2 Verbs
4.2.3 Adjectives
4.2.4 Adverbs
4.2.5 Interjections
4.3 The Closed-class Words
4.3.1 Determiners
1. Articles
2. Demonstratives
3. Other
4. Diagramming Practice
4.3.2 Pronouns
1. Definition of Pronouns
2. Types of Pronouns
3. Pronouns in Action
4. Practice
4.3.3 Prepositions
0. Definition of prepositions
1. What are prepositions?
2. Types of Preposition
3. Prepositions, Adverbs, and Particles
4. Prepositions in Use
5. Practice
4.3.4 Conjunctions
4.3.4.1. Types of Conjunctions
4.3.4.2 Conjunctive Adverbs
4.3.4.3 Conjunctions in Action
4.3.4.4 Practice
4.3.5 Auxiliary verbs
4.4 Unit Summary
5. PHRASES
5.1 Noun Phrases
5.1.1 NP: Form
5.1.2 NP: Function
5.1.3 Writing connection: The rhetoric of NPs
5.1.4 Practice & Assessment
5.2 Verb Phrases
5.2.1 VP: Tense & Aspect
5.2.2 VP: Voice
5.2.3 VP: Mood
5.3 Adjective Phrases
5.4 Adverb Phrases
5.5 Preposition Phrases
5.6 Phrases: Review
6. CLAUSES
6.1 Sentences vs. Clauses (Ch. 7)
6.2 Seven Basic Clause Patterns
6.2.0 Basic Clause Patterns: Introduction
6.2.1. Copular 1 (COP1)
6.2.2: Copular Verbs (COP2)
6.2.3: Intransitive Verbs (IT)
6.2.4. Monotransitive Verbs (MT)
6.2.5: Ditransitive Verbs (DT)
6.2.6: Complex transitive 1 (CT1)
6.2.7: Complex transitive 2 (CT2)
6.2.8 'There be' and 'It be' Sentences
6.3 Finite and Nonfinite Clauses
6.3.1 Finite Dependent Clauses (Ch. 11)
6.3.1.1 Relative clauses
6.3.1.2 Complement Clauses
6.3.1.3 Adverbial Clauses
6.3.2 Non-finite Dependent Clauses (Ch.12)
6.3.2.1 Infinitive Clauses
6.3.2.2 Present Participle Clauses
6.3.2.3 Past Participle Clauses
6.3.2.4 Gerund
6.4 Summary: Clause Types and Grammatical Functions
7. SENTENCES (Review)
7.1 Simple, Compound, Complex, & Compound-complex Sentences (Ch. 8)
7.2 Declarative, imperative, exclamatory, & interrogative, and sentences
7.3 Basic Sentence Transformations (Ch. 9)
7.3.1 Negative Sentence
7.3.2 Interrogative Sentences
A. Yes/No Questions
B. Information Questions
7.3.3 Imperative Sentences
7.4 Loose vs Periodic Sentences
COMMON GRAMMAR ERRORS
E-PORTFOLIOS
GRAMMATICAL LABELS
GRAMMAR RESOURCES
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1. What are prepositions?
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