URCE-5101 GRAMMAR 3(3+0)
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 to the long term learners’ needs.
Contents
1 Part 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
1. Eastwood, J. (1999). A Basic English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Swan, M. (2018). Practical English usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Assessment criteria:

10 marks (Presentation)

20 marks (Viva)

30 marks (MidTerm)