Faculty Syllabus

A grade of C or beer in Grammar 1 (ESOL 0395/COMX 4095) or placement in Grammar 2 through the ESOL Assessment Test.

Grammar Explorer 2 by Paul Carne. And any additional readings that compliment the grammar and writing tasks. 

● simple present 

● present progressive 

● simple past 

● past progressive 

● future forms - will, be going to, 

● future forms - simple present and present progressive 

● present perfect 

● present perfect progressive 

● modals

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: 

1. Define basic parts of speech/grammatical structures and identify them in sentences - review nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions; add subjects, objects, clauses, phrases, transitive, intransitive; 

2. Accurately conjugate and combine verb forms: 

Review 

● simple present 

● present progressive 

● simple past 

● past progressive 

● future forms - will, be going to, 

Introduce 

● future forms - simple present and present progressive 

● present perfect 

● present perfect progressive 

● modals 

Review Yes/No Questions and wh-questions. Introduce tag questions; Create syntactically correct sentences with there is/there are 

Identify the proper verb tense for sentences based on context; Describe the rationale for the use of each verb tense; Distinguish between comparisons and superlatives and use them in grammatically correct sentences; 

Apply the rules to include or omit definite and indefinite articles; Discriminate between gerunds/infinitives and use them in grammatically correct sentences;  Create sentences which include the proper structuring of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs.