Aims and objctives:

The course is intended to provide an introduction to the principal theoritical questions in morphology ,concentrating on two main approaches , the "morpheme" approach the "realizational" approach .The course is of present day English grammar and usage .The study incorporates tradition ,structural,chomskyan,and Functional lamguage theories for a sound pedagogical grammar that empshasises analytical thinking.This will help students to understand the grammatical concepts which link form/structure and function to meaning within various communicative context ,to analyise grammatical structures in spoken and written varities of English and to use secified grammatical elements (morpheme,phrases,clauses)to compose and communicate a varitey of sentence srtyles and patterns.The course uses written and oral texts to facilitate an understanding of form,function,and meaning of English structures within discourse contexts.The study incourages  learning the grammatical concepts and terminology for words ,phrases,clauses,and sentenses.

Assessment Criterion:

1. Midterm project: 30 marks
2. Sessional: 20 marks
   1. Attendance: 5 marks
   2. Assignments: 10 marks
   3. Quiz: 5 marks
3. Final term Examination: 50 marks