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Syntax deals with the question of how the phrases of a language are built up from smaller phrases and words.
== Course and Module Requirements ==


=== Parts of Speech ===
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Every English word belongs to a '''part of speech''' like ''noun'', ''verb'', or ''adjective'', and many words belong to more than one (for instance, the word cook can be a noun or a verb). You can think of a part of speech as a set of words that share some grammatical property, e.g. nouns often refer to objects and can be singular or plural, verbs often refer to event and can appear with different tense affixes, etc.
=== Online Exercises ===


Thus, for every part of speech, there are a number of tests that one can use to check whether a given word belongs to that part of speech. While there are certain cases where the tests to not give a clear result on the part of speech of a word, the typical situation is one where the tests unambiguously favor one part of speech over the others.
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In the course “Survey of English Grammar” we will be covering the most important topics of English grammar in one semester. The course will be particularly useful for future English teachers in that it will give a systematic, but informal, overview of the major topics of English grammar such as


The parts of speech can be grouped into two classes:
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<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_1| '''Parts of Speech''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_2| '''Verb forms''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_3| '''Clause structure''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_4| '''Nouns and NPs''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_5| '''Adjectives and Adverbs''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_6| '''Prepositions and PPs''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_7| '''Negation''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_8| '''Clause types and speech acts''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_9| '''Subordination. Finite clauses''']]</li>
<li>[[Survey_of_English_Grammar_Wiki:_Week_10| '''Non-finite clauses''']]</li>
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1. [[Major_parts_of_speech|Major parts of speech]]<br>
2. [[Minor_parts_of_speech|Minor parts of speech]]<br>
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[[Exercises_on_Parts_of_Speech|<span style="color: red>Exercises on Parts of Speech</span>]]




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Latest revision as of 21:07, 12 April 2021

Course and Module Requirements

Online Exercises

In the course “Survey of English Grammar” we will be covering the most important topics of English grammar in one semester. The course will be particularly useful for future English teachers in that it will give a systematic, but informal, overview of the major topics of English grammar such as


  1. Parts of Speech
  2. Verb forms
  3. Clause structure
  4. Nouns and NPs
  5. Adjectives and Adverbs
  6. Prepositions and PPs
  7. Negation
  8. Clause types and speech acts
  9. Subordination. Finite clauses
  10. Non-finite clauses





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