Grammar: notes on some topics

For each of the following grammar topics, you can get a 1-page note with illustrative examples. When we meet, further examples – with guidance and explanation – will be given so as to ensure that you clearly understand the underlying principles and are able to apply them in real situations. Further topics would be added to meet your needs.

• • • Noun Phrases: Pre-modifications
    • Noun Phrases: Post-modifications
    • Noun Phrases: Relative Clauses
    • Verbs: Gerunds
    • Verbs: Linking verbs
    • Verbless Clauses and Participial Clauses
    • Adjectives and Adverbs
    • Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
    • Nouns, Determiners and Pronouns
    • Inversion and Negation
    • Ellipsis and Cleft Sentences
    • Emphasizers and Intensifiers; Style Disjuncts
    • Extraposition and Existential There
    • Concession, Condition and Purpose
    • Reason, Result, Exception, Preference, etc
    • Sentence Types and Discourse Functions; Coordination