Practical Grammar
The First Year of Studies
I semester
- The Parts of Speech Inventory.
- Classification of simple sentences according to the purpose of communication. (Types of clauses.).
- Basic Patterns of an English sentence. (Five canonical clause structures).
- Principle elements of the sentence. (Noun phrase and Verb phrase. The structure of phrases).
- The notions of complement and object. (Complements and objects as noun and verb dependents).
- General characteristics of Nouns. (Distinctive properties of prototypical nouns).
- Classification of nouns. Major subclasses of nouns.
- Count and non-count nouns. Distinctive features.
- Number in Nouns. Regular and irregular plurals.
- Nouns with fixed number: Singular only and plural only nouns.
- Genitive Case: formation and meaning. (Genitive case vs possessive).
- Pronouns. Major subclasses of pronouns. (The prototypical members of pronoun subclasses).
- Person, Case and Gender differences of personal pronouns.
- The forms of personal pronouns and their use. (The nominative-accusative and dependent-independent contrasts of personal pronouns).
- Pronouns as means of noun determination and modification (some, any, much, many, few, little, etc.)
- Definite and indefinite determinatives. Articles as major means of noun determination.
- Definiteness. Definite article functions and use.
- Indefinite article functions and use.
- Zero article functions and use.
- Use of articles in set expressions.
- Use of articles with proper names.
- General characteristics of Adjectives. (Distinctive properties of prototypical adjectives).
- Gradable and non-gradable adjectives.
- Ways of adjective grade formation. Comparative and Superlative adjective phrases.
- Order of adjectives.
- Formation and use of present Simple.
- Formation and use of present Progressive.
- Contrasts between progressive and non-progressive.
- Formation and use of present perfect.
- Formation and use of present perfect progressive.
- The Simple preterite formation and use.
- Time reference in the present perfect and the simple preterite.
- The preterite progressive construction and use.
- The preterite perfect construction and use.
- The continuative perfect. The continuative use of perfect as opposed to non-continuative use. (Present Perfect Progressive and Present Perfect).
- The preterite perfect progressive as compared to preterite perfect.