An Introductory Course: English Grammar

Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Lugar: Córdoba Capital ; Año: 2013 p. 115

978-987-1308-89-7

The main objective of An Introductory Course: English Grammar is to introducethe first-year university student into the world of English grammar. Most of thestudents doing this introductory course have had some previous contact withEnglish grammar in one form or another. But here we intend to offer them a newperspective on the subject: one which relates grammatical structure systematicallyto meaning and use.An Introductory Course: English Grammar does not intend to be a completereview of English grammar but an impressive survey of some of the main studyareas of this subject. One that supplies basic information about the differentgrammatical forms and structures included in the first year syllabus of PrácticaGramatical del Inglés at Facultad de Lenguas (U.N.C) and which will, naturally, begiven a more detailed treatment during the year.The organization of the present work goes from a description of the maingrammatical features of isolated words through to sentences and simple texts.Though we have attempted to simplify grammatical terminology and classificationsas far as possible, we have introduced and explained the metalanguage essential todescribe the grammar of the English language. The treatment of such terminologygoes from simple terms like noun and adjective to more complex ones like time andtense and ditransitive complementation, notions we consider the future English teacherand/or translator should master.