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