In this course you will learn to describe how English sentences are constructed and you will develop the skills necessary to analyze sentence structure. In so doin you will use some of tools and methods of modern linguistics.
Describing how English sentences are constructed is not the same as telling people which sentences you consider examples of "good" or "Bad" grammar. Rather it is way of looking inside native speakers' heads in order to find out what they know about the English language that allows them to communicate clearly. What native speakers know about their language is called their competence. In this course we will direct our attention to syntax -- the ways in which sentences are constructed from smaller units to called phrases and how sentences are related to each other.
- Teacher: Rhealine Apalis