Course Title: Grammar

Course Code:  URCE-5101

Credit Hours: 03

Instructor:       Yassera Nisar

Email:             [email protected]

Course Objectives

The course introduces the students to the underlying rules to acquire and use language in academic context. The course aims at developing grammatical competence of the learners to use grammatical structures in context in order to make the experience of learning English more meaningful enabling the students to meet their real life communication needs. The objectives of the course are to, reinforce the basics of grammar, understand the basic meaningful units of language, and introduce the functional aspects of grammatical categories and to comprehend language use by practically working on the grammatical aspects of language in academic settings. After studying the course, students would be able to use the language efficiently in academic and real life situations and integrate the basic language skills in speaking and writing. The students would be able to work in a competitive environment at higher education level to cater with the long term learners’ needs. 

Contents

1. Parts of speech
2. Noun and its types
3. Pronoun and its types
4. Adjective and its types
5. Verb and its types
6. Adverb and its types
7. Prepositions and its types
8. Conjunction and its types
9. Phrases and its different types
10. Clauses and its different types
11. Sentence, parts of sentence  and types of sentence 
12. Synthesis of sentence
13. Conditional sentences
14. Voices
15. Narration
16. Punctuation 
17. Common grammatical errors and their corrections

Recommended Texts

Eastwood, J. (2011). A basic English grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swan, M. (2018). Practical English usage (8th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Suggested Readings

Thomson, A. J., & Martinet, A. V. (1986). A practical English grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press 

Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., Finegan, E., & Quirk, R. (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written English. Harlow Essex: MIT Press.

Hunston, S., & Francis, G. (2000). Pattern grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexicalgrammar of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.