Introduction to English word and sentence structure

Knowledge and understanding:

- knowledge of basic grammatical concepts and terminology

- knowledge of the grammar of English, with special attention to the structure of words (morphology), phrases and sentences (syntax), plus aspect and temporality

- knowledge about word classes, and the different functions that elements belonging to different word classes can fill in the clause

- knowledge about different types of clauses, and the functions these clauses can fill in a complex sentence

- knowledge about the valency of common verbs, plus the essential clause elements, and how to identify them (syntactic analysis)

- knowledge about how to represent the syntactic structure of clauses and sentences in the form of a basic tree diagram

Skills/proficiency:

- ability to describe and explain grammatical phenomena using appropriate grammatical terminology

- ability to classify words into word classes based on a given set of criteria

- ability to give a simple morphological analysis of complex words

- ability to give a syntactic analysis of English sentences in terms of clause elements, and ability to recognize that there are different elements (e.g. phrases and clauses) that can fill one and the same clause function, and to represent this in form of a tree diagram

- have improved their language skills in English

- have developed a vocabulary appropriate to talk about grammatical phenomena

Language of instruction and examination is English

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