English. Develop your command of the English language with us.

Join us for an exploration of English grammar and learn the intricacies of the English grammar system.

This course aims to establish an understanding of how the ‘rules’ of our grammar work. Specifically, how it allows us to construct sentences that are comprehensible and acceptable to other speakers. This involves consideration of the context and purpose of language use, along with questions of appropriateness, formality and informality, written and spoken use, and function. There are sometimes uncertainties in the ways rules are supposed to work and disputes about how grammar items should be used, ie do we say 'between you and I' or 'between you and me'). Such questions will be addressed throughout the course.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• identify the ways in which words are used to form sentences and so to articulate the basic workings of English syntax
• use the grammatical features of different categories of words, phrases, clauses and sentence types
• utilise a working knowledge of the terminology employed to describe the patterns of syntax and morphology in language
• relate knowledge of English grammar to language use in context, and by taking into account register and function, articulate a coherent and sensible approach to disputed usage.

Content

Lesson 1

• Definition: ‘grammar’, ‘syntax’, 'morphology'
• Overview sentence structure: words, phrases, clauses
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