ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE

ESL 115

A review of English grammar through intensive written and oral practice to promote accurate and appropriate language use for students who have already studied grammar extensively and need to refine the ability to produce acceptable academic English. Not open to auditors

ENGL 314

Linguistic methods of analysis and description of English syntax and morphology.

ENGL 613

A focus on understanding English grammar from a pedagogical perspective for the purpose of teaching English as a second or foreign language.

ENGL 412

Explores the relationship between descriptive and prescriptive grammar. Examines the role of prescriptivism in linguistics from a disciplinary view (why are linguists against it when the public is so clearly interested in singling out some constructions as 'bad grammar'). Provides a historical view (the tradition of grammar writing -- who gets to decide what is 'correct') and a variationist view (corpus-based studies on phenomena like preposition stranding, split infinitives, the distinction of who/whom etc.) of grammar writing. Covers the historical and cultural roots of beliefs about what constitutes 'good' and 'bad' grammar. Introduces linguistic tools and methods to check claims about grammar.

ENGL 514

Syntactic theory as applied to the analysis of English sentences.