Understanding English grammar

Aims

Please note: We regret that timetabling constraints mean that this module can only be offered to first-year students. This module is not suitable for visiting students who have learned English as a second language.

Aims

In this module you will learn the basic vocabulary and concepts needed to talk about English grammar. We will start with the smallest meaningful units, morphemes, and investigate how these combine to make words. From here we will explore how words can be formed into larger units called phrases, and then how phrases combine into clauses.

At the end of the module, you should be able to:

• use the meta-language of grammar to talk about English
• demonstrate an understanding of the way in which words and sentences are constructed
• break sentences down into their constituent parts
• analyse naturally occurring English texts (speech and writing)