Faculty Syllabus

Prerequisites: 

Required: A grade of C or better in Grammar 3 (ESOL 0397/COMX 4097) or placement in Grammar 4 through ESOL Assessment Test.

Recommended: Co-enrollment or a grade of C or better in Reading and Vocabulary 3 and Writing 3 or placement in Level 4 on the ESOL Assessment Test for those skills.

Required Textbooks/Materials/Software/Accounts:

• Understanding and Using English Grammar with MyEnglishLab Access. 5th edition, Betty Azar & Stacy Hagen. Pearson/Longman Press, 2017.  

ISBN: 9780133994599

• A computer or tablet with a web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox), for accessing our online workbook and Blackboard page and course on Zoom.
• ACCeID (activated) with password to log on to our class Blackboard page
• ACC email address
• 3-ring binder, paper, pencils/pens

Course Description and Rationale:

• Credit Hours: 3
• Classroom Contact Hours per week: 3

In Grammar 4, students will review intermediate verb tenses and proceed to advanced structures, emphasizing communicative use in academic and non-academic contexts. Emphasis is on mechanics and standard English grammar. This is the final class in a series designed to give students the opportunity to review and improve their use of all tenses and structures as well familiarize them with higher level grammar. Grammar 4 serves as a pre/corequisite for Writing 4. This course may be repeated for up to 6 hours.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:

1. Define basic parts of speech/grammatical structures and identify them in sentences - nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions; subjects, objects, transitive, intransitive; clauses, phrases, independent clauses, dependent clauses (review)
2. Accurately conjugate and combine verbs forms: 

Review

• simple present
• present progressive
• simple past
• past progressive
• future
• present perfect
• present perfect progressive
• past perfect and past perfect progressive  
• present, past, and future modals

Introduce

• future perfect and future perfect progressive;

1. Describe the rationale for the use of each verb tense;
2. Create sentences which include the proper verb tense for the context;
3. Demonstrate appropriate use of active voice vs. passive voice (review);
4. Create sentences which include the proper use of gerunds and infinitives (review); 
5. Create sentences which include the proper structuring of adverb clauses and restrictive/nonrestrictive adjective clauses (review);
6. Create sentences which include reduced adjective and adverb clauses;
7. Create sentences which include the proper use of conditionals and wishes. 
8. Create sentences which include the proper use of noun clauses as subjects, objects, and objects of prepositions; 
9. Accurately convert direct speech to indirect speech and vice-versa.