English 5030 Online: Pedagogical Grammar
Order of Course Content

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Part 1: General Morphology and Word Classes

Module 1: General Morphology.

• Reading: Chpt. 3 in Analyzing English Grammar.
• Lecture: "Morphology."
• Exercises online.
1. Parsing words into morphemes.
2. Simple and complex words.
3. Identifying roots.
4. Identifying the word classes of roots.
5. Identifying the word classes of complex words.
6. Identifying the functions of derivational morphemes.
7. Identifying inflectional morphemes.
8. Suffixal homophones.
9. General questions on morphology.
• Group Discussion: The Plural Morpheme.
• Examination 1: General Morphology.

Module 2: Word Classes.

• Readings: Chpts. 4-6 in Analyzing English Grammar.
• Lecture: "Form Classes."
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying count nouns.
2. Finding the heads of NPs.
3. Identifying subclasses of nouns.
4. Identifying nouns by using inflectional morphemes.
5. Apostrophes
6. Testing for NPs.
7. Identifying NP antecedents of pronouns.
8. Identifying verbs.
9. Distinguishing main verbs from auxiliaries.
10. Regular and irregular verbs.
11. Identifying main verbs in context.
12. Identifying adjectives.
13. Finding adjectives.
14. Identifying gradable and non-gradable adjectives.
15. Identifying adverbs.
16. Finding adverbs.
17. Discriminating among form classes.
18. General questions on form classes.
• Lectures: "Introduction to Structure Classes" and "Determiners"
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying determiners.
2. Testing for determiners through substitution.
3. Finding determiners.
• Lecture: "Pronouns"
• Lecture: "Prepositions"
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying prepositions.
2. Finding prepositions.
3. Finding prepositional phrases.
• Lecture and Summary Outline.
1. "Auxiliaries"
2. Summary Outline: "Auxiliaries."
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying auxiliaries.
2. Counting auxiliaries.
3. Finding verb groups.
• Lecture: "Degree Adverbs"
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying degree adverbs.
2. Finding degree adverbs.
3. Discriminating between degree adverbs and general adverbs.
4. Finding what degree adverbs modify.
• Lecture: "Coordinating Conjunctions"
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying coordinating conjunctions.
2. Finding coordinating conjunctions.
3. Discriminating among structure classes.
4. General questions on structure classes.
• Group Discussion: Quantifying determiners.
• Examination 2: Word Classes.

Part 2: Phrases and Sentence Patterns

Module 3: Phrases.

• Reading: Chapter 7 in Analyzing English Grammar.
• Lecture: "Introduction to Syntax: Phrases.
• Reading Passage: "Phrases."
• Summary Outline: "Phrases."
• Exercises online.
1. Finding the heads of noun phrases.
2. Identifying noun phrases.
3. Finding noun phrases through pronoun substitution.
4. Finding the first auxiliary with the negative transformation.
5. Writing verb groups.
6. Finding the heads of adjective phrases.
7. Writing adjective phrases.
8. Adjective phrases as optional constituents.
9. Writing adverb phrases.
10. Adverb phrases as optional constituents.
11. Writing prepositional phrases.
12. Prepositional phrases as optional constituents.
13. Discriminating among different phrase types.
14. Finding the verb phrase (predicate) in declarative sentences.
15. Finding the subject in declarative sentences.
16. Finding the subjects in questions.
17. Finding the subject in certain problem questions.
18. Summary Exercise: Subjects and predicates.
• Group Discussion: Explaining how to Find Subjects.
• Examination 3: Phrases.

Module 4: Sentence Patterns.

• Readings: Chpt. 8-9 in Analyzing English Grammar.
• Lecture: "Main Verbs and their Complements."
• Reading Passage: “Main Verbs and their Complements.”
• Summary Outline: "Sentence Patterns."
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying intransitive sentences.
2. Identifying intensive sentences.
3. Finding subject complements.
4. Identifying mono-transitive sentences.
5. Finding direct objects.
6. Identifying passive sentences.
7. Transforming active sentences into passive sentences.
8. Discriminating between intensive and mono-transitive sentences.
9. Discriminating between intensive and passive sentences.
10. Identifying ditransitive sentences.
11. Identifying indirect objects.
12. Moving indirect objects.
13. Identifying complex transitive sentences.
14. Finding object complements.
15. Discriminating among different types of transitive sentences.
16. Discriminating among all types of sentences.
• Lecture: “Phrasal Verbs.”
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying transitives with particles.
2. Finding transitives with particles.
3. Moving particles.
4. Identifying two word transitives.
5. Finding two word transitives.
6. Identifying two word intransitives.
7. Finding two word intransitives.
8. Discriminating among types of phrasal verbs.
• Group Discussion: IO and DO.
• Examination 4: Sentence Patterns.

Part 3: Beyond Form: Testing for Grammatical Function

Module 5: Testing for Grammatical Functions.

• Lecture: "The Functions of Noun Phrases."
• Summary Outline: "The Functions of Noun Phrases."
• Exercises online.
1. Finding subjects of verbs.
2. Finding subject complements (2).
3. Finding direct objects (2).
4. Distinguishing between direct objects and subject complements.
5. Finding indirect objects.
6. Distinguishing between direct objects and indirect objects.
7. Finding object complements (2).
8. Finding objects of prepositions.
9. Grammatical functions of NPs.
• Lecture: "The Functions of Prepositional Phrases.”
• Summary Outline: "The Functions of Prepositional Phrases."
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying prepositional phrases as subject and object complements.
2. Finding prepositional phrases as subject and object complements.
3. Identifying prepositional phrases as post modifiers of a noun.
4. Finding post modifiers of nouns using pronoun substitution.
5. Identifying prepositional phrases as post modifiers of adjectives.
6. Finding prepositional phrases as post modifiers of adjectives.
7. Identifying prepositional phrases as adverbials.
8. Finding prepositional phrases functioning adverbially.
9. Grammatical functions of prepositional phrases.
• Lecture: “Identifying Grammatical Functions.”
• Exercise online: Testing for grammatical functions.
• Exercise online: General review questions from Modules 1-5.
• Group Discussion: Testing for Grammatical Functions.
• Examination 5: Testing for Grammatical Functions.

Part 4: Finite and Non-finite Structures

Module 6: Finite Subordinate Clauses.

• Readings: Chpts. 10-11 in Analyzing English Grammar.
• Lecture: "Finite Subordinate Clauses"
• Reading Passage: "Finite Subordinate Clauses."
• Summary Outline: "Finite Subordinate Clauses."
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying adverb clauses.
2. Identifying subordinating conjunctions.
3. Finding subordinating conjunctions.
4. Finding adverb clauses using subordinating conjunctions.
5. Finding adverb clauses using movement and deletion.
6. Identifying adjective clauses.
7. Finding adjective clauses using deletion.
8. Identifying the grammatical functions of relative pronouns.
9. Finding the antecedents of the relative pronouns.
10. Distinguishing between adverb and adjective clauses.
11. Identifying noun clauses.
12. Finding noun clauses with pronoun substitution.
13. Finding the grammatical functions of noun clauses.
14. Summary Exercise: Finite Subordinate Clauses.
• Lecture: That Clauses: The Other Finite Subordinate Clause.
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying that clauses.
2. Identifying that clauses used as modifiers.
3. Discriminating among that clauses used as modifiers.
4. Identifying that clauses used as NP substitutes.
5. Finding the grammatical functions of NP substitutes.
6. Distinguishing between that clauses and adjective clauses.
7. Discriminating among that clauses with different functions.
8. Discriminating among all types of finite subordinate clauses.
• Lecture: "Identifying Grammatical Functions."
• Examination 6: Finite Subordinate Clauses.

Module 7: Non-finite Structures.

• Reading: Chapter 12 in Analyzing English Grammar.
• Lecture: “Finite Subordinate Clauses.”
• Exercises online.
1. Identifying infinitive phrases.
2. Identifying infinitive phrases used as modifiers.
3. Discriminating among infinitive phrases used as modifiers.
4. Testing for infinitive phrases used adverbially through movement.
5. Identifying infinitive phrases used as NP substitutes.
6. Finding infinitive phrases used as NP substitutes.
7. Discriminating among infinitive phrases used as nominal.
8. Discriminating among infinitive phrases with different functions.
• Lecture: “Participle and Gerund Phrases.”
1. Identifying present participle phrase.
2. Identifying present participle phrases used as optional modifiers.
3. Identifying present participle phrases used as optional modifiers.
4. Testing for adverbials through movement.
5. Discriminating among present participle phrases used as optional modifiers.
6. Identifying present participle phrases used as NP substitutes (gerunds).
7. Finding gerunds using pronoun substitution.
8. Finding the grammatical functions of gerunds.
9. Discriminating among present participle phrases with different functions.
10. Identifying past participle phrases.
11. Finding past participle phrases.
• Examination 7: Non-finite Structures.

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Syllabus for English 5030 Online

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