Grammar Essentials 2: Parts of Speech (Word Classes)

Posted: January 4, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: english language, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Tutorials | Leave a comment » Words are different from each other in meaning—car and unwelcome mean different things, after all. But they can also differ from each other in more than meaning: they can also differ in the way they are used in sentences. Read the rest of this entry »

Grammar Essentials 1: Inflections (Inflectional Morphology)

Posted: January 4, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: english language, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Tutorials | Leave a comment » For the most part, English uses word order to indicate the relationship among words in sentences. When I say “The boy bit the dog”, people listening to me know that it was the boy who did the biting because The boy comes first in the sentence. Likewise, they know that it was the dog that was bitten because the dog comes after bit. Read the rest of this entry »

Grammar: A Guide to the Essentials

Posted: January 3, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: english language, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Teaching, Tutorials | Leave a comment » This tutorial is intended for high school, college, and University students who need a quick guide the essentials of English grammar. Its goal is to help you understand the core grammatical terminology used in textbooks and lectures in courses on foreign languages, the History of English, Old English, or other medieval and classical languages. Read the rest of this entry »

Old English Metre: A Brief Guide

Posted: November 21, 2006 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Literature, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, english language, germanic languages, history of english, medieval studies, metre, old english, scansion, students, study tips, Teaching | Leave a comment » Although the Anglo-Saxons left no accounts of their metrical organisation, statistical and linguistic analysis of the poetic corpus has allowed us to come up with a good idea as to how their verse worked. Read the rest of this entry »

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