Grammar Text
Fall 2007
For this fall, the course handouts are being revised
considerably and consolidated into PDF files which can be downloaded and
printed from the web. The first three of these are now available, in
at least preliminary form:
- BASICS
- Shibboleths
- Eight Parts of Speech
- Five Kinds of Phrases
- Tense, Modals, and Five Basic Sentence Functions
- One Way of Diagraming Sentences
FILLING IN THE
BASICS
- Three Persons, 2 Genders, and Other Numbers
- Four Kinds of Questions
- Possessives
- More Adverbials
- TwoTenses, 2 Auxiliaries, 2 Participles, 2 Aspects, 2 Voices
- Varieties of Linking Verbs and Transitive Verbs
ADVANCED NOUN
PHRASES
- More About Nouns
- Participles as Modifiers and Nominals
- More on Determiners and Pronouns
- Relative Clauses
- Deleted and Reduced Relatives
ADVANCED CLAUSES
- Relative Clauses Outside of Noun Phrases
- Other Clauses and Nominals
- Extraposition and Other Movements
- Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
Old Spring 2007 Handouts