UNIT 2: AN OVERVIEW OF GRAMMATICAL UNITS: DIFFERENCES FROM TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR (week 1-3)
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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 5: THE VERB PHRASE (week 8) |
5.1. The verb phrase
5.2. Finite vs non-finite verbs
5.3. Auxiliary vs lexical verbs
5.4. An overview of tense, aspect, voice and modality
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UNIT 7: THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (week 10) |
7.1. The structure of prepositional phrases
7.2. Preposition stranding
7.3. PP complements in clause structure |
UNIT 8: SUBORDINATION AND CONTENT
CLAUSES (week 11)
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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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