AJ2RC_SYNB Syntax B

Faculty of Education
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0/24. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
Completion of Syntax A Course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course covers the area of syntactic characteristics of the English sentence, focusing on the compound sentence (coordination) and the complex sentence (subordination). Having completed the course, the students should be thoroughly - acquainted with the areas of complementation of verbs and adjectives (infinitive vs. -ing forms) - familiar with the topics of clauses of result and cause, purpose, concession, time and relative clauses. - and able to create authentic and standard English sentences.
Syllabus
  • 1 Chapter 13 Coordination, Chapter 10 B The ing form as gerund
  • 2 Chapter 13 cont., Chapter 10 C Verbs taking the infinitive or ing
  • 3 Chapter 16 Complementation of verbs and adjectives, Chapter 10 D Verbs taking a full infinitive or ing
  • 4 Chapter 16 cont., Chapter 3 A Relation between result and cause
  • 5 Chapter 3 B Result expressed by too or enough)
  • 6 REVISION TRANSLATION, Chapter 14 The complex sentence, Chapter 4 A Purpose (standard constructions)
  • 7 Chapter 14 cont., Chapter 4 B Purpose (shortened constructions), Chapter 6 cause, purpose, concession, alternatives.
  • 8 REVISION MID-TERM TEST, Chapter 15 Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses, Chapter 5 Concession
  • 10 Chapter 15 cont., Chapter 7 Time.
  • 13 Chapter 8 A Relatives. Introduction. Chapter 8 B Sentence building with relatives.
  • 14 Chapter 8 C Shortened constructions. Chapter 9 Similarity and comparison.
Literature
  • GETHIN, Hugh. Grammar in context :proficiency level English. New edition. Harlow: Longman, 1996, 235 s. ISBN 0-17-556420-5. info
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A student's grammar of the English language. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 490 stran. ISBN 0582059712. info
Assessment methods
2-period seminar Course evaluation: - attendance (more than two unexcused absences will not be tolerated) + homework - the final mark will be based on the overall average counted out of the autumn term results and all the three tests written in the Spring semester (mid-term test + translation + written credit test) + oral exam Teaching methods: classroom discussions, lectures, students' presentations, home assignments, home projects.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=982
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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