Part One Teaching Outline
Introduction: Grammatical Hierarchy
0.1 Morphemes
0.2 Words
0.3 Phrases
0.4 Clauses
0.5 Sentences
Lecture 1: Sentence Structure
1.1 Clause elements
1.2 Basic clause types and their transformation and expansion
Lecture 2: Subject-verb Concord (I)
2.1 Guiding principles
2.2 Problems of concord with nouns ending in -s
2.3 Problems of concord with collective nouns
Lecture 3: Subject-verb Concord (II)
3.1 Problems of concord with subject containing coordinate forms
3.2 Problems of concord with expressions of quantity
3.3 Problems of concord with nominal clause as subject
3.4 Problems of concord in relative clause, cleft-sentence and existential sentence
Lecture 4: Noun and Noun Phrase
4.1 Classification of nouns
4.2 Number forms of nouns
4.3 Partitives
Lecture 5: Genitive Noun
5.1 Formation and meanings of genitive nouns
5.2 Independent genitive, post-genitive and double genitive
Lecture 6: Determiners (I)
6.1 Collocations between determiners and nouns
6.2 Collocations between determiners
6.3 Comparative study of certain determiners
Lecture 7: Determiners (II) --Articles
7.1 Generic and specific reference
7.2 Article usage
Lecture 8: Pronouns (I)
8.1 Pronoun concord in number
8.2 Pronoun concord in gender
8.3 Pronoun concord in person
Lecture 9: Pronouns (II)
9.1 Choice of pronoun case forms
9.2 Possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns and generic use of personal pronouns
9.3 Pronoun reference
Lecture 10: Verb and Verb Phrase Simple Present and Simple Past
10.1 Classification of verbs
10.2 Simple present
10.3 Simple past
Part Two Key to Exercises