ENGL 351 - Modern English Grammar

1. a) Able to do a structural analysis of a sentence into clauses, phrases, words and morpheme s; b) able to do a functional analysis of a sentence into subject, predicate, operator, predication,  main verb, objects, complements , and adverbials ; c) understand the difference between open-class parts of speech and closed-class parts of speech ; d) able to identify four types of sentences in terms of communicative functions: i.e. declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative ; e) able to distinguish between active and passive sentences ; f) recognize the difference between finite and non-finite verb phrases ; and g) able to identify seven basic types of sentences whose functional components are s subject, verb, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, and adverbial complement : i.e. SV, SVC, SVA, SVO, SVOO, SVOC, SVOA;
2. a) Able to distinguish between main verb , primary auxiliary verb and modal auxiliary verb , to recognize their various forms, and to grasp the rules to create these forms; and b) able to identify three types of mood in grammar: indicative, imperative, and subjunctive ;
3. a) Understand the grammatical concepts of time, tense , and aspect ; b) able to identify twelve types of tense and aspect in the verb phrase: i.e. simple present, simple past, simple future, present perfective, past perfective, future perfective, present progressive, past progressive, future progressive, present perfective progressive, past perfective progressive , and future perfective progressive ; and c) understand the functions of the twelve types of tense and aspect, and know how to use them in communication.
4. a) Able to identify three types of sentences in terms of sentence structure: i.e. simple, compound , and complex sentences ; b) recognize the form, position and syntactic functions of subject, objects, complements , and adverbials ; c) understand various types of subject-verb agreement , and able to use it correctly in writing; and d) able to distinguish between various types of subordinate clauses , and identify their subordinators .