Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)
This course is designed to introduce students to the complicated world of English syntax, so as to facilitate their
ability to read and comprehend advanced texts in English. Lectures will focus on advancing this goal and sample
texts will be chosen accordingly; successful students will finish this course ready to study in English at a university
level.
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)
This course is designed to introduce students to the complicated world of English syntax, so as to facilitate their
ability to read and comprehend advanced texts in English. Lectures will focus on advancing this goal and sample
texts will be chosen accordingly; successful students will finish this course ready to study in English at a university
level.
Syllabus -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)
Each class meeting consists of a lecture focusing on a single aspect of English syntax, which is demonstrated using sentence diagrams. This includes:
Basic idea of syntax and its application in the English language: i.e., constituent units of meaning: word, phrase, and clause. Introduction to sentence diagrams. Verb: what they are and what they do. Transitive and intransitive, passive and active, verb phrases and phrasal verbs. Verbals: what they are and what they do. Verbal phrases, infinitives, gerunds, and participles. Nouns: what they are and what they do. Nouns as word, phrase, and clause: subjective and objective - including objects of verbs, verbals, and prepositions. Pronouns: what they are and what they do, including their function as nouns, conjunctions, and possessives. Adjectives: what they are and what they do, including relative clauses. Adverbs: what they are and what they do, including subordinate clauses. Prepositions: what they are and what they do, prepositions as adjectives and adverbs. Conjunctions and determiners: what they are and what they do. Overview: English as a functional syntactic language: noun pronoun verb adjective adverb pronoun determiner conjunction preposition.
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)
Each class meeting consists of a lecture focusing on a single aspect of English syntax, which is demonstrated using sentence diagrams. This includes:
Basic idea of syntax and its application in the English language: i.e., constituent units of meaning: word, phrase, and clause. Introduction to sentence diagrams. Verb: what they are and what they do. Transitive and intransitive, passive and active, verb phrases and phrasal verbs. Verbals: what they are and what they do. Verbal phrases, infinitives, gerunds, and participles. Nouns: what they are and what they do. Nouns as word, phrase, and clause: subjective and objective - including objects of verbs, verbals, and prepositions. Pronouns: what they are and what they do, including their function as nouns, conjunctions, and possessives. Adjectives: what they are and what they do, including relative clauses. Adverbs: what they are and what they do, including subordinate clauses. Prepositions: what they are and what they do, prepositions as adjectives and adverbs. Conjunctions and determiners: what they are and what they do. Overview: English as a functional syntactic language: noun pronoun verb adjective adverb pronoun determiner conjunction preposition.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)
To earn credit for this course the student must demonstrate their ability to use advanced (not grammar school) English though written and oral examination. Regular attendance is expected and points will be deducted for repeated absences.
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)
To earn credit for this course the student must demonstrate their ability to use advanced (not grammar school) English though written and oral examination. Regular attendance is expected and points will be deducted for repeated absences.
Literature -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (30.11.2022)
Povinná literatura
MURPHY, Raymond. English Grammar in Use (With Answers and CD-ROM). 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 380 s. EAN 9780521537629.
STRETTIOVÁ, Terezie Josefa, OP. Anglicko - český teologický slovník. 3. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2004. 82 s. ISBN 80-246-0867-7.
BLÁHA, Jan. Anglický výkladový slovník vybraných odborných termínů z psychologie, sociologie, etiky a sociální práce. 1. vydání. Praha: Triton, 2004. 192 s. ISBN 80-7254-467-5.
FRONEK, Josef. Velký anglicko-český a česko-anglický slovník. 1. vydání. Voznice: Leda, 2007. 1576 s. ISBN 978-80-7335-114-4
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (30.11.2022)
Povinná literatura
MURPHY, Raymond. English Grammar in Use (With Answers and CD-ROM). 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 380 s. EAN 9780521537629.
Capital Community Colleges, Guide to Grammar and Writing: online at:
STRETTIOVÁ, Terezie Josefa, OP. Anglicko - český teologický slovník. 3. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2004. 82 s. ISBN 80-246-0867-7.
BLÁHA, Jan. Anglický výkladový slovník vybraných odborných termínů z psychologie, sociologie, etiky a sociální práce. 1. vydání. Praha: Triton, 2004. 192 s. ISBN 80-7254-467-5.
FRONEK, Josef. Velký anglicko-český a česko-anglický slovník. 1. vydání. Voznice: Leda, 2007. 1576 s. ISBN 978-80-7335-114-4
