UNIT 2: AN OVERVIEW OF GRAMMATICAL UNITS: (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 |
UNIT 4: THE VERB PHRASE (week 7) |
4.1. The verb phrase
4.2. Finite vs non-finite verbs
4.3. Auxiliary vs lexical verbs
4.4. An overview of tense, aspect, voice and modality |
UNIT 6: THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (week 9)
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6.1. The structure of prepositional phrases
6.2. Preposition stranding
6.3. PP complements in clause structure |
UNIT 8: SUBORDINATION AND CONTENT CLAUSES (week 12-13) |
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 |
UNIT 10: NON-FINITE CLAUSES (week 15) |
10.1 Four kinds of non-finite clause
10.2 The form of non-finite clauses
10.3. The functions of non-finite clauses |