Unit 1 Preliminaries about Grammar Pre-Class Reading 1. 1 Language and its grammar 1.2 Grammatical knowledge 1.3 Grammatical competence 1.4 Learning English grammar In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Part One The Structure of English Sentences Unit 2 Constructing English Sentences Pre-Class Reading 2.1 Sentence components in English 2.2 Sentence patterns in English 2.3 Movements of sentence components In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 3 Functional Taxonomy of English Sentences Pre-Class Reading 3.1 Declarative sentences in English 3.2 Interrogative sentences in English 3.3 Imperative sentences in English 3.4 Exclamatory sentences in English In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 4 Grammatical Markers in English Sentences Pre-Class Reading 4.1 The plurality marker 4.2 The possessive case marker 4.3 The tense aspect markers 4.4 Degree markers for adjectives adverbs In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Part Two The Subject and the Object Unit 5 The Subject Pre-Class Reading 5.1 The form choices of the subject 5.2 The meaning choices of the subject 5.3 The subject-predicate agreement in number In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 6 The Object Pre-Class Reading 6.1 Defining the object 6.2 The form choices of the object 6.3 The meaning choices of the object In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 7 Determiners in Noun Phrases Pre-Class Reading 7.1 Defining the notion of "determiner" 7.2 Types of determiners 7.3 The co-occurrence of determiners In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 8 Attributives: Modifiers in Noun Phrases Pre-Class Reading 8.1 The definition of the attributive 8.2 The form choices of the attributive 8.3 The relative clause- 8.4 Ordering modifiers in noun phrases In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Part Three The Predicate and Related Grammatical Categories Unit 9 The Terse and Aspect Systems Pre-Class Reading 9.1 The predicate 9.2 The tense of the predicate 9.3 The aspect of the predicate 9.4 Present tenses 9.5 Past tenses 9.6 Future times In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 10 The Mood System Pre-Class Reading 10.1 Mood as a grammatical category 10.2 Form choices of the subjunctive mood 10.3 Function choices of the subjunctive mood In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 11 The Modality System Pre-Class Reading 11. 1 Types of modal verbs 11.2 Categories of modality 11.3 Modality and po]iteness In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Part Four The Adverbial and the Complement Unit 12 The Adverbial Pre-Class Reading 12.1 The definition of the adverbial 12.2 The form choices of the adverbial 12.3 Types of the adverbials 12.4 Adverbial clauses In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 13 The Complement Pre-Class Reading 13.1 Defining the complement 13.2 The form choices of the subject complement 13.3 The form choices of the object complement In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Part Five Grammar and Text Unit 14 Inversion Pre-Class Reading 14.1 Defining inversion 14.2 Grammatical inversion 14.3 Rhetorical inversion In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 15 Ellipsis and Substitution Pre-Class Reading 15.1 Defining ellipsis 15.2 Grammatical ellipsis 15.3 Rhetorical ellipsis 15.4 Substitution In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work Unit 16 Cohesion in English Texts Pre-Class Reading 16.1 Defining cohesion 16.2 Types of cohesive devices 16.3 Choice of cohesive devices In-Class Activities Post-Class Tasks Project Work References Glossary