Syllabus | EN 2104: Language Structure, Linguistics & Usage III
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Expanding the sentence: coordination- compound sentences (15/08 hrs)
- Coordination: Two independent clauses are combined to form compound sentence using coordinating conjunctions - and, but, or, either .or, neither, nor,
Types of activities:
Join sentences using coordinating conjunctions
Breaking a long sentence into simple sentences
Expanding the sentence: subordination-the complex sentence (15/07hrs)
- 1n subordination there is an independent clause and one or more dependent or subordinate clauses. Subordinate conjunctions –when, while, till, before, after, because, as, if, unless, that, so that, etc.
Three main classes of dependent clauses analysed by structural types:
Finite clauses: verb element is a finite verb phrase, e.g. I like John because John likes me.
- Non-finite clauses:
to-infinitive: The best thing would be to tell everybody.
All I did was hit him on the head.(infinitive without to)
-ing form: Leaving the room, he tripped over the mat.
-ed participle: Covered with confusion, we left the room.
Verb less clause: e.g. Although always helpful, he …….
If-clauses (15/08 hrs)
- Type 1: if - past tense-will
If you post the letter, it’ll get there by Thursday.
- Type 2: if- past perfect-would
If I had a million pounds I would probably go round the world.
- Type 3: if-past perfect- would have
If we had taken your advice, we would have saved a lot of time.
- Types of activities: Complete the conversation/ dialogue.
Cleft sentences (15/07 hrs)
- With ‘it’: we use cleft sentences to give emphasis to a particular part of the sentence. It does this by splitting the sentence into two halves and ‘highlighting’ the topic by making it the complement of it + be.
e.g. The Americans landed on the moon, not the Russians.
It was the Americans who landed on the moon, not the Russians.
- Cleft sentences with ‘what or ‘the thing (that)
What I really enjoy is eating chocolates. The thing that I ……….
Linguistics
Applied linguistics (15/08 hrs)
- Language learning & language acquisition
- Bilingualism- code mixing & code switching
- Individual learner differences
- Contrastive analysis & error analysis
- Krashen’s theory
Morphology (15/07 hrs)
- What is morphology?
- Introduction to Morph, morpheme & allomorph
- Inflection & derivation
- Word formation process
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