Week 1: General Intro to English Grammar + Course Overview + Nouns & Compounds, gender, number, etc.
Week 2: Pronouns, (personal pronouns, substitution & ellipsis, pronoun reference)
Week 3: Adjectives and adverbs (types of adjectives and adverbs)
Week 4: Articles + Determiners & Quantifiers
Week 5: Verbs (infinitives, -ing forms, irregular verbs, etc.) subjunctive mood
Week 6: Verb tenses (present, present continuous, present perfect, past, past perfect, etc.)
Modals (should & ought to, will & would, may, might, can, could, must & have to)
Week 7: Mid-term exam
Week 8: Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Week 9: Sentences (types of sentences) / Clauses (adjectival clauses, adverbial clauses, etc.)
Week 10: Conditionals (real conditionals, unreal conditionals, mixed conditionals, etc.)
Week 11: Dangling & misplaced modifiers / appositives
Week 12: Parallelisms (coordinating conjunctions, coordinating adverbs, etc.) Paraphrases
Week 13: Faulty pronoun reference (types of error in using pronoun reference) Faulty omissions
Week 14: Connectors & focus structures / punctuation in writing
Week 15: Basic rhetorical devices
Week 16: Final Exam (in-class)
Attendance Policy
Attendance is required for the course. This means you should come to every class.
Absences are counted starting from the first day of Week 4 (after the add/drop period). From Week 4 onward, you are
required to attend all classes.
You may have one unexcused absence without penalty. After that, each unexcused absence will result in the loss of 2%
off of your overall course grade. 3 unexcused absences will result in the loss of 6% off of your final grade. 4 or more
unexcused absences will result in failure of the course, and the student will not be allowed to take the final exam.