English Grammar: All You Need to Know
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English Grammar: All You Need to Know at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹3,794 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
English Grammar: All You Need to Know at FutureLearn Highlights
- Earn a certificate upon completion
English Grammar: All You Need to Know at FutureLearn Course details
- On this six-week course from UCL, you’ll take an in-depth look at English grammar, learning how to construct sentences, create meaning, and communicate effectively both personally and professionally
- You’ll learn about grammatical forms, such as nouns, noun phrases, verbs and verb phrases, as well as about grammatical functions, including Subject, Predicate, Complement, and Adjunct, before moving on to semantic roles
- After gaining a comprehensive overview of the forms and functions of grammar, you’ll then examine how different grammatical notions, such as tense, aspect, and mood are implemented in English
- In the final week of this course, you’ll examine how to highlight certain parts of your message and clarify your meaning using information structuring
English Grammar: All You Need to Know at FutureLearn Curriculum
The building blocks of English: word classes and phrases
Welcome to the course!
Word classes
Nouns, noun phrases and pronouns
Determinatives
Adjectives and adjective phrases
Verbs and verb phrases
Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Adverbs and adverb phrases
Conjunctions
Interjections
Simple and multi-clause sentences
Help with terminology
Summary and feedback
Grammatical functions and semantic roles
Grammatical functions
Subject
Predicate and Predicator
Complement
Direct Object
Indirect Object
Predicative Complement
What is the difference between Predicative Complements, Direct and Indirect Objects?
Prepositional Phrase as Complement
Complement Clause
Adjunct
Semantic roles
Analysing clauses at the levels of grammatical form, grammatical function and semantic roles
Summary and feedback
Using words and phrases to build clauses
Subordination defined
Markers of subordination
Finite subordinate clauses
Non-finite subordinate clauses
Clause types
Summary and feedback
Talking about time: tense and aspect
Tense
Uses of the present tense
Uses of the past tense
The past tense forms of auxiliary verbs
Other ways of referring to present, past and future time
Aspect
Perfect aspect
Progressive aspect
Perfect, progressive and passive combinations
Aspect and lexical meaning
Summary and feedback
Talking about what is possible, probable and necessary: mood and modality
Mood and modality
Three types of modality in English
The expression of modality in English
The meanings expressed by the core modal verbs
Marginal modal verbs
Modal idioms
Lexical modality
Other issues pertaining to modality
Summary and feedback
How to communicate effectively: presenting information
Information structuring
Two principles of information structuring
Movement
Passivisation
The Indirect Object - Prepositional Phrase as Complement alternation
The existential and presentational constructions
Inversion
Clefting
Final test
Summary of this week and the course as a whole and your thoughts
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