Topics in English Grammar: An Introduction (For undergraduates)

One course that I know students in the department of English and sister faculties cum departments in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife dread is English grammar! The English grammar courses include: EGL 101, EGL 102, EGL 203, EGL 204 and EGL 401. Perhaps the experience is the same in other universities. 

Some of the topics in English grammar include (not arranged in any order of importance): 

Clausal elements/Elements of the English Sentence: Subject, Verb, Object, Complement and Adverb.

Cohesive devices: 

i. Substitution

ii. Identification

iii. Ellipsis 

iv. Reference

The nominal group: 

 i. The structure of the nominal group

ii. Functions of the nominal group

Basic Simple Sentence

Rankshifting 

Word formation processes: 

i. Affixation

ii. Conversion

iii. Compounding

iv. Reduplication

v. Clipping 

vi. Blending 

The Grammatical Rankscale: 

i. Sentence

ii. Clause

iii. Phrase/Group

iv. Word

v. Morpheme

Dependent/Subordinate clauses: 

i. Noun clause

ii. Adjectival clause

iii. Adverbial clause 

Sentence: Types and functions

One major aspect of English grammar that I know that students in the department of English struggle with is how to analyze a sentence into its clausal elements. And it seems a question the lecturers won't stop asking in tests and exams. Unfortunately, when lecturers analyze sentences in class, they use confusing terminologies like Complement intensive/complement extensive, exacerbating the situation. That, I can promise you, will be a thing in the past if you will carefully read through the posts that will be uploaded. 

Find posts on 'Topics in English Grammar' below.  

http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-is-morpheme.html?m=1

http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2020/03/bound-morphemes-derivative-and.html?m=1

http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2020/03/morpheme-rootbase-and-stem-i.html?m=1

By way of introduction, you may also wish to read some of my previous articles below.

Word formation processes http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2019/03/word-formation-processes-affixation-how.html?m=1

The noun phrase as subject http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2019/10/english-titles-functions-of-noun.html?m=1

The noun phrase as object 1
http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2019/10/english-titles-two-noun-phrasenoun.html?m=1

The noun phrase as indirect object 2
http://olabanjititles.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-noun-phrasenoun-clause-as-indirect.html?m=1

For any of our readers from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) or from any other university, if you have any topic in English grammar in mind that I have not listed above, which you want be to urgently address, you can endeavour to contact me on 08037699294. You may also wish to lend your voice to whether or not to upload videos on these topics.