Learning outcomes

To provide a systematic introduction to the linguistic description of English grammar and usage, and to familiarise students with the terminology used in standard reference works.

Contents

Half of this course concentrates on the English verbs, particularly on tenses, aspects and modalities. Students become acquainted with noun phrases, with particular emphasis on explaining article usage. Topics are introduced during the lectures, and questions related to them (or the course book) are discussed in the tutorials following the lectures.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

Leech and Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English. 3rd edition.

Belongs to following study modules