Introduction to English Word and Sentence Structure

The course offers an introduction to English grammar, with emphasis on word and sentence structure. Word classes and word order, temporality and aspect are standard areas of study. In this regard, the course will also attend to aspects of language acquisition, historical development and geographical and social variation. The course keeps a contrastive Norwegian-English perspective when this is relevant. The students are to write two term papers that focuses on one of the subjects studied during the term.

Higher Education Entrance Qualification (generell studiekompetanse) or prior learning and work experience (realkompetanse).

Application code (for Nordic students): 9199

The students have the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

The student has:

• 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

The student:

• is able todescribe and explain grammatical phenomena using appropriate grammatical terminology
• is able toclassify words into word classes based on a given set of criteria
• is able togive a simple morphological analysis of complex words
• is able togive 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
• has improved their language skills in English.
• has developed a vocabulary appropriate to talk about grammatical phenomena.

If you pass the examination in this course, you will get an reduction in credits (as stated below), if you previously have passed the following courses:

• ENG-1010 Introduction to English Language I 10 stp
• ENG-1010 Introduction to English Grammar I 10 stp

Lectures, exercises, project assignments.

Quality assurance:

The course undergoes a midterm evaluation or an end-of-term evaluation every third year.

Language of instruction and examination

The obligatory coursework requirements must be approved in order to take the final exam.

Coursework requirements: Two short papers.

Assessment method: 4-hour school exam.

Performance in the course will be assessed on an A-F grades scale. Grades are A-E for passed and F for failed. A re-sit examination is offered in the event of an F grade. The deadline to register for a re-sit examination is January 15th for the autumn semester and August 15th for the spring semester.