一、课程名称:英语语法 English Grammar
二、课程编码: 11224010
三、学时与学分: 34学时/2学分
四、考核方式:考试
五、先修课程:基础英语(1-3)
六、适用学科专业:英语专业
七、课程总体教学目的
学完本课程学生应该能够:
1.辨别和区分词素、词、词组、分句和句子等五个语法层次。
2.列出各封闭词类(介词、代词、限定词、连词和助动词等)和开放词类(名词、形容词、副词和主动词等)并说明它们的功能。
3.解释不同名词作主语的主谓一致问题以及不同分句和句子中的主谓一致问题。
4.解释主动词、助动词、及物动词、双及物动词、不及物动词和联系动词的功能;并说明动词的各种时、态和体的作用。
5.理解主动词情态意义的表达法(可能、能力、允许和义务等);区分情态动词的推测性和非推测性用法。
6.识别和分析非限定动词在句中的运用。
7.识别和分析简单句的成分、其转换与扩大以及句子的种类。
8.熟悉各种句子类型及运用。
9.识别和分析复杂句的结构(从属结构、关系分句等)。
10.识别、解释口语和书面语的主要差别。
11.理解不同文体中语法的区别。
12.识别英式英语和美式英语的主要语法差异。
13.运用各种衔接手段(省略、替代、照应等)实现从句子到语段再到语篇的连贯性和逻辑性。
八、总体教学要求:
英语语法是英语专业的专业必修课,使用教材为章振邦编著的《新编英语语法教程》,由上海外语教育出版社出版。该课程帮助学生比较系统地了解分析英语语法的方法,使他们认识、了解英语口语和书面语的区别以及从词到句再至语篇的构造。通过对各个语法层次,即词素、词、词组、分句和句子的系统认识和分析,提高学生使用英语的规范性以及传递信息、表达思想的准确性和逻辑性。由于学生在中学阶段已经了解、掌握了相当的语法知识,本课程不求面面俱到,而是有所侧重。通过一学期的学习,本课程旨在进一步提高学生实际运用英语的能力,为后来的学习和研究英语语言、文学奠定基础。
讲授之前对学生进行测试以便确定教学的重点,其他的由学生自己学习掌握,教师会通过练习检测学生的学习情况。除了教材上的练习(课堂上做一部分;布置课后做一部分;其余学生自行处理),学生要完成的作业还包括课后的写作、翻译、课堂上的小组讨论、相互改错等活动,通过对语法知识的实际运用促进他们对英语语言结构的理解和掌握。所有课内、课外作业和小组活动的参与各占平时成绩的一半比分。平时成绩占总成绩的30%。
期末考试为笔试,除了对语法点的测试,着重考核学生对知识理解和运用,此类测试所占比例一般不少于50%。
九、基本教学安排
本课程开设一个学期,总学时为34学时,每周2个学时,安排在第4个学期。教学进度安排如下:
Unit 1: Introduction – Grammatical Hierarchy
Objectives
Define Sentence, Clause, Phrase, Word and Morpheme.
Segment a full sentence rank by rank down to morphemes.
Distinguish different types of sentences.
Grammatical hierarchy
Morphemes
Words
Phrases
Clauses
Sentences
Main point: Sentence types
Homework: Write a journal about two pages, double space. Topic free.
Unit 2: Sentence Structure
Objectives
Identify different clause elements in a sentence.
Identify different clause types.
Combine simple sentences into a single compound, complex or compound-complex sentence.
Sentence structure
Clause elements
Basic clause types and their transformation and expansion
Main point: the combination of sentences.
Homework
Exercise 1C , p24-27.
Reading assignment, p 28-51 on subject-verb concord.
Unit 3: Nouns, Genitive Nouns and Pronouns
Objectives
Apply a basic knowledge of nouns, genitive nouns and pronouns.
Identify major types of nouns.
Distinguish between types of pronoun.
Nouns, Genitive Nouns and Pronouns
Classification of nouns and function of noun phrases
Number forms of nouns
Partitives
Independent genitive and double genitive
Pronoun concord and case forms
Types of pronoun
Main points: number forms of nouns; pronoun concord and case forms
Homework: Ex. 4C, p67; Ex. 5D, p81-82 ; Ex. 9C, p155-156.
Practice 1
The focuses of each practice class depend on the common mistakes made by the students in their previous exercises. The class is designed for the teacher to give feedbacks and for the students to do more exercises to help them try to avoid similar errors in the future.
Unit 4: Determiners
Objectives
Apply a basic knowledge of determiners and quantifiers as word classes to the analysis of their sentence functions.
Distinguish between the functions of central, pre- and post-determiners.
Determiners
Collocations between determiners and nouns
Collocations between determiners
A comparative study of some determiner usage
Articles in use with different classes of noun
Main points: Collocations between determiners; Articles in use
Homework: Ex. 6E, p95-96.
Unit 5: Adjective and Adjective Phrase
Objectives
Identify the formation of adjectives and the syntactic roles they play in sentences.
Apply multi-adjective modifiers in a correct order.
Identify and use adjectives as postmodifiers.
Distinguish dynamic adjectives from stative adjectives, gradable adjectives from non-gradable adjectives so as to use them correctly.
Adjective and Adjective Phrase
Classification and formation of adjectives
●Pure adjectives
●Adjectives from nouns
●Adjectives from verbs
●Adjectives from present participles
●Adjectives from past participles
●Compound adjectives
Adjectives in use
●Syntactic functions
●Order of multi premodifiers
●Postmodifying adjectives
●Adjective phrases
●Dynamic and stative adjectives
●Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
●Confusing adjectives
Main points: syntactic functions, especially the predicative and attributive roles of adjectives
Homework: Ex. 23A, 11-40, p390-391; 23C, p396-397.
Unit 6: Adverb and Adverb Phrase
Objectives
Identify the formation and classification of adverbs
Identify the syntactic roles of adverbs
Apply a basic knowledge of the position of adverbs in sentences for clarity.
Adverb and Adverb Phrase
Formation of adverbs
●Simple adverbs
●Compound adverbs
●Adverbs derived by suffixation
●Fixed phrases
Classification of adverbs
Adverbs in use
●Syntactic roles
●Positions in sentences
●Adverbs with the same form as adjectives
●Adverbs with and without -ly
Main point: positions in sentence
Homework: Ex. 24A, p411-412; Ex. 24D, p421-422; reading assignment, p423-437 on comparison and comparative constructions.
Practice 2
Unit 7: Verbs (I) – Overview
Objectives
Identify different types of verbs.
Explain the functions of main, auxiliary, transitive, ditransitive, intransitive and linking verbs.
Verbs – Overview
Verb types and their functions
●Main verbs
●Auxiliary verbs
●Linking verbs
Tense, aspect, voice and mood
Main point: ditransitive verbs
Homework: Ex. 10A, p165.
Unit 8: Verbs (II) – Tense and Aspect
Objectives
Demonstrate an understanding of how the verb phrase is marked differentially to represent present and past actions, processes and states.
Show how the phenomenon of aspect is used to convey perfect and progressive meanings via the verb phrase.
Tense and Aspect
Uses of simple present and simple past
Uses of present progressive and past progressive
Uses of present and past perfective (progressive)
Main points: simple present and past; present progressive
Homework: A report from each group on what the students discuss in class
Unit 9: Means of Referring to Future Time and Passive Voice
Objectives
Explain the ways in which future time is referred to.
Explain the cohesive and pragmatic roles played by the passive voice in discourse.
Referring to future time
Constructions denoting future time
Means of referring to future time
Passive voice
Active and passive sentence
Passive voice of non-finite verbs
Roles played by the passive voice in discourse
Main points: difference of the ways referring future time; roles of the passive voice
Homework: Ex. 13C, p235-236; Ex. 15A, p255 ; Ex. 15C, p263-2.
Practice 3
Unit 10: Subjunctive Mood and Non-finite verbs
Objectives
Understand ways of expressing hypothetical meanings.
Identify the roles non-finite verbs play in sentences.
Subjunctive mood
BE-subjunctive
WERE-subjunctive
Other forms of subjunctive
Non-finite verbs
Infinitive
-ing participle
-ed participle
Main point: roles of infinites in sentences
Homework: a paper from each group on If I were…; Ex. 22D, p385-386; reading assignment, p281-321 on auxiliary verbs.
Unit 11: Analyzing Sentences (I)
Objectives
Identify and analyze existential sentences, It-patterns and conditional sentences.
Analyzing sentences
Existential sentences
It-patterns
Conditional sentences
Main points: verbs in existential sentences; conditional sentences
Homework: reading assignment, p440-466 on preposition and prepositional phrase; p467-487 on statement, question, command and exclamation.
Unit 12: Analyzing Sentences (II)
Objectives
Identify and analyze coordination and subordination.
Identity and analyze reduced relative clauses.
Analyzing sentences
Coordination
Subordination
Relative clauses
Main points: dangling modifiers; absolute construction
Homework: Ex. 30 A, p508-509; Ex. 32F, p558; Ex. 33D, p585-5.
Unit 13: From Sentence to Text
Objectives
Understand and apply cohesive devices to improve cohesiveness of written texts.
Cohesive devices
Substitution
Ellipsis
Reference
Conjunction
Main points: all cohesive devices
Homework: Ex. 40E, p716-718; Ex. 40F, p718-720.
Practice 4
附录1:
教学课时分配表
单元(U)/练习课(P) | 教学内容 | 教学时数 | 备注 | |
讲授 | 作业 | 作业时数未包括课内练习 | ||
U1 | 语法导论 | 2 | 1 | |
U2 | 句子结构 | 2 | 2 | |
U3 | 名词、名词属格和代词 | 2 | 1 | |
P1 | 学生作业常犯错误反馈、练习 | 2 | ||
U4 | 限定词 | 2 | 1 | |
U5 | 形容词和形容词词组 | 2 | 1 | |
U6 | 副词和副词词组 | 2 | 2 | |
P2 | 学生作业常犯错误反馈、练习 | 2 | ||
U7 | 动词(I) | 2 | 1 | |
U8 | 动词(II) | 2 | 2 | |
U9 | 将来时间表示法、被动语态 | 2 | 2 | |
P3 | 学生常犯错误反馈、练习 | 2 | ||
U10 | 虚拟语气、非限定动词 | 2 | 2 | |
U11 | 句子分析(I) | 2 | 2 | |
U12 | 句子分析(II) | 2 | 2 | |
U13 | 从句到篇 | 2 | 2 | |
P4 | 学生常犯错误反馈、练习 | 2 | ||
合计 | 34 | 20 |
主要参考书目
1、Douglas Biber等编著:《朗文英语口语和笔语语法》,外语教学与研究出版社2000年版。
2、A. J. Thomson等编著:《牛津实用英语语法》,第四版,外语教学与研究出版社2006年版。
3、琼•平卡姆编著:《中式英语之鉴》,外语教育与研究出版社2007年版。
4、Analyzing English Grammer,公开大学翻译系语法教材。
5、汪福祥编著:《语法与语用》,外文出版社2006年版。
6、吴艾玲编著:《多功能系统英语语法》,国防工业出版社2006年版。