Grammar Course for Advanced Learners: Expert-level Language Proficiency

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Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Know Your Sentence

Lesson	Topic Covered	Example Sentence
1	Sentence & Sentence Fragments	I go./ Looking for jobs.
3	Subject & Predicate	The cat is lovely.
4	Intransitive Verbs	The cat sleeps.
5	Transitive Verbs	The cat catches rats.
6	Linking Verbs	The cat is very active.
7	Main Verbs & Helping Verbs	John is baking a cake.
8	Direct Object	Father called me.
9	Indirect & Direct Object	Father gave me a new book.
10	Object of prepositions	She lives in Canada with her parents.
11	Subject Complement	Jessica is a doctor.
12	Linking Verb	The book is new.
13	Object vs Predicate Nominative	The man is a farmer.
14	Object & Object Complement	They elected Jessica their captain.
15	Adverb & Adverbial	They live happily in their village.
16	Interrogative Sentences	What are you doing?
17	Forming Questions	Will they come today?

Unit 2: Parts of Speech Review

Lesson	Topic Covered	Example Sentence
1	Verbs & Verb Phrases	I have time, so I shall come today.
2	Finite & Nonfinite Verbs	Reading gives us pleasure.
3	Infinitives	I like to read.
4	Functions of Infinitives	To err is human.
5	Participles	Don't disturb the sleeping dog.
6	Functions of Participles	I saw her reading.
7	Gerunds	Seeing is believing.
8	Functions of Gerunds	They are learning by doing.
9	Identification of Nonfinite Verbs	Quiz
10	Position & Function of Nouns	Review
11	Identification of Nouns	Quiz
12	Position & Function of Adjectives	Our new car is red.
13	Identification of Adjectives	Quiz
14	Adverbs & Adverb Questions	When will they come?
15	Position & Function of Adverbs	He hardly come here.
16	Identification of Adverbs	Quiz
17	Pronouns	I like her.
18	Subject & Object Pronouns	We saw him.
19	Possessive Determiners	My name is Shelley.
20	Possessive Pronouns or Determiners	This is my seat. That is yours.
21	Prepositions	Birds fly in the sky.
22	Objects of Prepositions	They went to the market.
23	Prepositions of Time	Our school begins at ten.
24	Prepositions of Place	I read in a big school.
25	Prepositions of Direction & Movement	They are going to school.
26	Prepositional Phrase	It hardly rains in winter.
27	Conjunctions	Boys and girls are playing.
28	Types of Conjunctions	Review
29	Coordinate & Subordinate Conjunctions	Review
30	Coordinating Conjunctions (Compound Subject)	Donne and Byron were poets.
	Coordinating Conjunctions (Compound Verb)	He is dancing and singing.
	Coordinating Conjunctions (Compound Object)	I ate fish and rice.
31	Coordinating Conjunctions (Compound Adjectives)	I bought a blue and red car.
	Coordinating Conjunctions (Compound Adverbs)	They danced merrily and well.
32	Coordinating Conjunctions (Compound Sentences)	She lives in London and works there.
33	Interjections & Nouns of Direct Address	Hurrah, we've won! Jack, we've won.

Unit 3: Phrases

Lesson	Topic Covered	Example Sentence
1	What Are Phrases?	Some naughty boys were playing near a pond.
2	Nouns & Noun Phrases	Rex is a good cricketer.
3	Components of Noun Phrases (Nouns, Determiners, Adjectives)	There is an old tree in our village.
4	Positions of Noun Phrases in Sentences	A small cat caught a big rat from the wheat field.
5	Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases	We live in a large village.
6	Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs	Our home is beside a river.
7	Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives	The people of Japan are hard working.
8	Present Participials	A rolling stone gathers no moss.
	Present Participial Phrases	I saw an old lady lying on the floor.
9	Past Participles	The frozen lake provided a perfect surface for ice skating.
	Past Participle Phrases	The food, frozen stiff, needed to be defrosted before cooking.
10	Participle Phrases as Adjectives	People living in villages are farmers.
11	Gerund & Gerund Phrases	Walking in the morning makes us healthy.
12	Gerund Phrases as Noun Phrases	Walking in the morning makes us healthy.
13	Infinitives	She wants to go home now.
14	Infinitive Phrases	She wants to go home.
	Infinitive Phrases as Noun Phrases	To waste time means to waste your life.
15	Infinitive Phrases as Subject of Verbs	To tell a lie is a sin.
	Infinitive Phrases as Object of Verbs	I love to eat ice-cream.
17	Infinitive Phrases as Adverbial Phrases	I went to buy some groceries.
18	Review of Different Types of Phrases	Quiz

Unit 4: Clauses

Lesson	Topic Covered	Example Sentences
1	Subordinating Conjunctions	Review
2	What is a clause?	Review
3	Independent & Dependent Clauses	Review
4	Noun Clauses	I know where he lives.
5	Noun Clauses as Subjects	What you say is true.
6	Noun Clauses as Objects	I know when he will come.
7	Noun Clauses as Subject Complements	This is what I want.
8	Relative Pronouns	A boy who studies regularly can do well in exam.
9	Relative Pronouns as Subject	This is the man who helped me.
10	Relative Pronouns as Object	This is the man whom I helped.
11	Attributive Adjective	I have a black cat.
12	Adjective Clause	I have a cat which is black.
13	Adverb Clauses	After we finish dinner, we can go for a walk.
	Adverb Clauses of Manner	She sang as though she were on stage.
14	Adverb Clauses of Time	Before I go to bed, I always read a book.
15	Adverb Clauses of Place	Wherever she goes, she always carries her camera.
16	Adverb Clauses of Condition	If it rains, we'll stay indoors.
	Adverb Clauses of Result	She studied hard, therefore she passed the exam.
17	Adverb Clauses of Concession	Although she was tired, she kept working on her project.
18	Adverb Clauses of Reason	Because he studied hard, he passed the exam.
	Adverb Clauses of Purpose	She took a map with her so that she wouldn't get lost.
19	Dependent Clauses (Adverb, Noun, Adjective)	Quiz