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Syntax ENSGA03X / Pedagogical Grammar ENSG1B02X
2010 - 2011
Lessons Syntax Block 1, first 8 meetingsRest of Bl 1: 1 hour per week regular recaps and practice test
Pedagogical Grammar starts half way through bl 1. Runs until and including bl 3. In bl 4 remedial meetings to prepare for resit.
Tests Syntax end of block 1
study: reader & notes
Pedagogical Grammar end of block 3
What is a sentence? A group of words which makes sense. A word or set of words followed by a
pause and revealing an intelligible purpose.
A combination of words that contains at least one subject and one predicate.
A combination of words that completes a thought.
Collins English Dictionary
‘A sequence of words capable of standing alone to make an assertion, ask a question, or give a command, usually consisting of a subject and predicate containing a finitefinite verb.’
What are sentences for?
To make statements To ask questions To request or demand action To express emotion
The Life and Strange and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me. —Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
‘But --- !’
Subject & “The rest” Subject – What is it
“Rest” – What we’re saying about it
ExamplesSUBJECT
John
The dog
The beautiful fairy
“Rest”
smiled.
was barking.
had granted three wishes.
Examples“Rest”
Over the horizon appeared
SUBJECT
an immense Armada.
AnalysisDividing sentences into
Constituents (zinsdelen)
Giving them labels
eg Subject
Constituents Phrase
eg Noun Phrase (head word is a noun)
The dogs / barkedThe furious dogs / barked
The furious dogs of the milkman / barked
Five kinds of phrases1. Noun phrase the furious dogs
2. Adjective Phrase glad3. Adverb Phrase drastically4. Verb Phrase was barking / rushed
off
5. Prepositional Phrase in the garden
Word Class (Parts of Speech)p22
Parsing (the art of analysing the various roles played by words in a sentence)
OPEN CLASSESNounsAdjectivesVerbs
AdverbsInterjections
CLOSED CLASSESDeterminersPronounsConjunctionsPrepositionsAuxiliaries