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LANG 1010 – English I

At a glance

  • 2 lecture hours per week
  • 2 credits

Prerequisites

None

Course Description

  • Introduction and parts of speech
  • Nouns (kinds and function, gender, singular/plural, count/mass, compound nouns, possessive case)
  • Articles
  • Pronouns (kinds, uses)
  • Verbs (regular, irregular, finite, infinite, transitive, intransitive, gerund)
  • Adjective (kinds, position, order of adjectives of quality, comparison)
  • Understanding a paragraph; re-arranging sentences in a paragraph; writing paragraphs
  • Vocabulary (prefixes, suffixes, homonyms and homophones, collective nouns)
  • Error identification
  • Listening comprehension with stress on intonations and pronunciations

Learning Resources

  • Murphy, R. (1994). Immediate English grammar. Cambridge University Press.