This course presents a
brief account of English syntax based on The Cambridge Grammar of the
English Language,[1] providing an overview of
the main constructions and categories in the language. The present version is
intended primarily for members of the English Teachers' Association of
Queensland (ETAQ), offering an alternative approach to that presented in the
2007 volume of their journal Words`Worth by Lenore Ferguson under the title
`Grammar at the Coalface' - in particular the articles `The structural basics'
(March 2007) and `Functional elements in a clause' (June 2007). I make use of
concepts discussed in my own Words'Worth paper `Aspects of grammar:
functions, complements and inflection' (March 2008), and take over Functional
Grammar's useful convention of distinguishing between functions and classes by
using an initial capital letter for the former: thus Subject is the name of a
function, noun phrase the name of a class
- Teacher: nely Arif