Teaching Packages: English
Grammar: An Introduction
This program takes the university student of English Language from identifying
parts of speech in context through the more complex processes involved
in parsing phrases and clauses. There is an accompanying coursebook, English
Grammar: An Introduction (CJ Kay, Glasgow, 1997).
The computer package, English Grammar: An Introduction is based
on our level one and two course on Modern English Grammar. The course
is taken by first and second year university students who generally have
very little knowledge of grammatical structures. Course units are sequenced
to take the student from the (relatively) simple task of identifying parts
of speech in context through the more complex processes involved in parsing
phrases and clauses. Given that many of the students are also studying
literature, the most relevant outcome is to be able to compare styles
in terms of grammatical structure. The grammatical model is Hallidayan,
but the primary reference is to the students' own coursebook. (C. J. Kay,
English Grammar: An Introduction Glasgow, 1998).
The central feature of the teaching package is the exercise. There are
five types of exercise, from naming parts of speech in context through
to parsing phrases and clauses. Students compare their answers with the
correct ones by clicking on the symbol below each sentence to be parsed.
The author's preferred version of the parsed sentence is displayed with
explanations of the more predictable errors where necessary. Within the
correctly parsed version of the sentence there are hypertext links to
the relevant parts of the coursebook. The navigation bar at the bottom
of the screen is always present for access to instructions, backtracking
to a previous page and exiting from the package. The coursebook can be
consulted on-screen, and explanations of the more predictable errors are
given. There is a pre-examination revision session, cloning examples from
the coursebook.
Contents
Unit 1 BASIC CONCEPTS
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Word, phrase, sentence
1.3 Grammar
1.4 Literary deviance
Unit 2 PARTS OF SPEECH
2.1 Word-classes
2.2 Open and closed classes
2.3 Semantics
2.4 More about nouns
2.5 More about adjectives
2.6 More about adverbs
2.7 More about verbs
Unit 3 WORDS AND PHRASES
3.1 Phrases
3.2 Headwords
3.3 Modifiers
3.4 Types of phrases
3.5 Adverbs and prepositions
3.6 Participles
3.7 Adjectives and nouns
Unit 4 WORD FORMATION
4.1 What is a word?
4.2 Morphology
4.3 Affixes
4.4 Compounds
Unit 5 FUNCTION LABELS
5.1 Form and function
5.2 Position
5.3 SPOCA
5.4 Sentence and clause
5.5 Function and Order
5.6 Slots and fillers
5.7 Object and Complement
5.8 Adverbials
5.9 Clause Patterns
5.10 Ambiguity
Unit 6 MAINLY ABOUT VERBS
6.1 Linguistic systems
6.2 The verb phrase
6.3 Verb systems
6.4 Auxiliary "do"
Unit 7 THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES
7.1 Prose style
7.2 Clauses and sentences
7.3 Closed class words
7.4 Technical problems
7.5 Phrasal and prepositional verbs
7.6 Cohesion
Unit 8 MORE ABOUT PHRASES
8.1 Subordination
8.2 Clauses
8.3 Words and phrases
8.4 Apposition
8.5 Genitive phrases
8.6 Tree Diagrams
Unit 9 MORE ABOUT CLAUSES
9.1 Subordinate clauses
9.2 Adverbial clauses
9.3 Noun clauses
9.4 Direct subordination
9.5 Indirect subordination
9.6 Relative clauses
9.7 Comparative clauses
9.8 Prepositional clauses
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