Unit 1 Basics of English grammar

1.1 What is grammar

1.2 Word classes (parts of speech)

1.3 Grammatical categories

1.4 Grammatical Hierarchy

1.5 Clause structure

1.6 Clause elements

Unit 2 Subject-verb Concord

2.1 Guiding Principles

2.2 Problems of Concord with Nouns Ending in –s

2.3 problems of Concord with Collective Nouns as Subject

2.4 problems of concord with expressions of quantity as subject

2.5 other problems of subject-verb concord

Unit 3 Noun and Noun Phrase

3.1 Classifications of Nouns and Noun phrase analyzed

3.2 Noun phrase analyzed

3.3 Number

3.4 Genitive

3.5 Independent genitive and double genitive

Unit 4 Determiners

4.1 Collocations between determiners and nouns

4.2 Collocations between subclasses of determiners

4.3 Functions of determiners

4.4 Generic and specific reference of articles

4.5 Articles in use with different classes of nouns

Unit 5 Pronouns

5.1 Pronoun concord in person

5.2 Pronoun concord in number and pronoun concord in gender

5.3 Choice of pronoun case forms

5.4 Possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns

Unit 6 Verb and Verb Phrase

6.1 Classification of auxiliaries

6.2 Classification of main verbs

6.3 Finite verb (phrase) & non-finite verb (phrase)

Unit 7 Tense and Aspect

7.1 Tense and aspect defined

7.2 Uses of simple present and simple past

7.3 Uses of present progressive and past progressive

7.4 Uses of present perfective (progressive) and past perfective (progressive)

7.5 Means of Expressing Future Time

Unit 8 Passive Voice

8.1 Introduction of the four types of passive voice

8.2 Two related types of passive sentences

Unit 9 Subjunctive Mood

9.1 Subjunctive Mood

Unit 10 Non-finite Verbs

10.1 Forms of the infinitive and the uses of the infinitive sign

10.2 some notes on the use of the infinitive sign

10.3 Combinations of infinitives with adjectives

10.4 Combinations of infinitives with nouns

10.5 Combinations of infinitives with verbs

10.6 Collocation of -ing participle with verbs

10.7 -ed participle as premodifier and as complement

10.8 a few notes on “dangling participles”

Unit 11 Adjective and Adjective Phrase

11.1 Classification of Adjectives

11.2 Adjective(phrase) as modifier in noun phrase

11.3 comparative construction

Unit 12 Preposition and Prepositional Phrase

12.1 Collocation of prepositions

Unit 13 Existential Sentence

13.1 existential sentence

Unit 14 Coordination and Subordination

14.1 Syntactic functions of non-finite existential sentence

14.2 Coordination and coordinate sentence

Unit 15 Conditional Sentence

15.1 Complex sentence with nominal clause，adverbial clause,or non-finite clause

Unit 16 Modification and Emphasis

16.1 Choice of relative words

16.2 Modification

16.3 Postponement-and periodic sentence

16.4 Fronting and inversion

16.5 Cleft sentence