UNIT 2: AN OVERVIEW OF GRAMMATICAL UNITS: DIFFERENCES FROM TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR (week 1-3) |
2.1. Sentence, clause, phrase and word
2.2. Category vs function
2.3. Word and lexeme categories: the parts of speech
2.4. Survey of lexical words and function words
2.5. The structure of phrases
2.6. Canonical and non-canonical clauses
2.7. Structure of words: Inflection vs derivation
2.8. Word-formation processes
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UNIT 4: CLAUSE STRUCTURE (week 6-7) |
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The subject
4.3. The object
4.4. Predicative complements
4.5. Types of clause structures
4.6. Multi-word lexical verbs: Phrasal, prepositional and phrasal-prepositional verbs
4.7. Adjuncts
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UNIT 6: THE ADJECTIVE AND THE ADVERB PHRASE (week 9) |
6.1. Characteristics of adjectives
6.2. The structure and function of adjective phrases
6.3. Characteristics of adverbs
6.4. The structure and function of adverb phrases
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UNIT 8: SUBORDINATION AND CONTENT CLAUSES (week 11) |
8.1. Subordinate clauses
8.2. Clause type in content clauses
8.3. Declarative content clauses
8.4. Interrogative content clauses
8.5. Exclamative content clauses
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UNIT 10: NON-FINITE CLAUSES (week 13-14) |
10.1 Four kinds of non-finite clause
10.2 The form of non-finite clauses
10.3. The functions of non-finite clauses
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