大学英语专业语法课件——引言Introduction.ppt

A Course of Practical English Grammar for Students of English Cheng Zhenquan School of Foreign Studies, SCNU Contact info. Public mail: grammarcheng@ password: ???  Contact me:  zhenquancheng@ 金真木又—— /u/2101278245 Lecture 1 Introduction Preliminaries: How many tenses are there in English? Would you be surprised if someone tells you that English has only two tenses: present past? that English sentences do not have attributive? How would you account for the ungrammaticality of the following sentences? *His all books are on the desk. *My that dictionary was bought last year. Would you call “can, may, should, will, would, must…” modal verbs or modal auxiliaries? Note: Apparently, we will be revisiting the major grammatical categories in English. But we are not simply repeating, we will be discussing them from somewhat different perspectives, which help to deepen our understandings about the grammatical phenomena we’ve ever learned before. The Goals for this Course To get a comprehensive view of English grammar system and enhance our grammatical competence so that we may qualify as English majors; To deepen our understandings about some basic grammatical notions and their applications, especially in the field of language teaching learning; To get some preliminary knowledge about the main streams of theory in grammar so as to prepare for the future research work. The Requirements for this course Class attendance Active participation in the classroom discussions Fulfillment of the assignments: (exercises group project) Examination Note: To ease the difficulty in learning, it is strongly recommended that we memorize the grammatical jargons (terms) in English. Reference course books 章振邦，2009，《新编英语语法教程》（第五版），上海外语教育出版社。 张道真， 2004，《实用英语语法》， 外语教学和研究出版社。 薄冰、何政安，2004，《新编英语语法》，世界知识出版社。 Quirk, R. et al, 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the Englis