For WINTER 2009: The course provides the understanding necessary to
teach English, and writing, in the schools. It focuses on the basic
grammatical forms and structures of English and several approaches to
describing and representing them. We will cover

* lexical categories (Parts of Speech),
* syntactic categories (such as phrases, clauses, tense, and aspect),
* grammatical relations,
* dependency relations,
* constituent structure,
* loosely integrated srings of words in the sentence.
* connective links between sentences.
We will use some of the on-line tools for automated POS tagging and
graphing ("diagramming"). By the end of the course, students will be
able to describe most of the syntactic structures of English in several
ways. In addition, students will be able analyze the cohesion of
sentences in connected text.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 370