Part One The Structure of English Sentences Unit 1 Preliminaries about Grammar Pre Class Reading 1.1 Language and its grammar 1.2 Grammatical knowledge 1.3 Grammatical competence 1.4 Learning English grammar Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 2 Constructing English Sentences Pre Class Reading 2.1 Sentence components in English 2.2 Sentence patterns in English 2.3 Movements of sentence components Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 3 Functional Taxonomy of English Sentences Pre Class Reading 3.1 Declarative sentences in English 3.2 Interrogative sentences in English 3.3 Imperative sentences in English 3.4 Exclamatory sentences in English Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 4 Grammatical Markers in English Sentences Pre Class Reading 4.1 The plurality marker 4.2 The possessive case marker 4.3 The tense / aspect markers 4.4 Degree markers for adjectives / adverbs Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Part Two The Structure of English Sentences Unit 5 The Subject Pre Class Reading 5.1 The form choices of the subject 5.2 The meaning choices of the subject 5.3 The subject predicate agreement in number Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work
Unit 6 The Object Pre Class Reading 6.1 Defining the object 6.2 The form choices of the object 6.3 The meaning choices of the object Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 7 Determiners in Noun Phrases Pre Class Reading 7.1 Defining the notion of determiner 7.2 Types of determiners 7.3 The co occurrence of determiners Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 8 Attributives: Modifiers in Noun Phrases Pre Class Reading 8.1 The definition of the attributive 8.2 The form choices of the attributive 8.3 The relative clause 8.4 Ordering modifiers in noun phrases Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Part Three The Predicate and Related Grammatical Categories Unit 9 The Tense and Aspect Systems Pre Class Reading 9.1 The predicate 9.2 The tense of the predicate verb 9.3 The aspect of the predicate verb 9.4 Present tenses 9.5 Past tenses 9.6 Verbal means of expressing future time Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 10 The Mood System Pre Class Reading 10.1 Mood as a grammatical category 10.2 Form choices of the subjunctive mood 10.3 Function choices of the subjunctive mood Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work
Unit 11 The Modality System Pre Class Reading 11.1 Types of modal verbs 11.2 Categories of modality 11.3 Modality and politeness Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Part Four The Adverbial and the Complement Unit 12 The Adverbial Pre Class Reading 12.1 The definition of the adverbial 12.2 The form choices of the adverbial 12.3 Types of the adverbials 12.4 Adverbial clauses Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 13 The Complement Pre Class Reading 13.1 Defining the complement 13.2 The form choices of the subject complement 13.3 The form choices of the object complement Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Part Five Grammar and Text Unit 14 Inversion Pre Class Reading 14.1 Defining inversion 14.2 Grammatical inversion 14.3 Rhetorical inversion Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 15 Ellipsis and Substitution Pre Class Reading 15.1 Defining ellipsis 15.2 Grammatical ellipsis 15.3 Rhetorical ellipsis 15.4 Substitution Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work Unit 16 Cohesion in English Texts
Pre Class Reading 16.1 Defining cohesion 16.2 Types of cohesive devices 16.3 Choice of ellipsis Check your understanding In Class Activities Post Class Tasks Project Work References Glossary