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1 Lecture 1 Course Orientation
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2 Lecture 2 Grammatical Hierarchy
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2.1 Grammar Structure
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2.2 Morpheme
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2.3 Word
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2.4 Phrase
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2.5 Clause
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2.6 Sentence
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3 Clause and Sentence
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3.1 Quiz: English Sentence Structure
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3.2 Clause Elements
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3.3 Two Methods of Sentence Analyses
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3.4 Basic Clause Patterns
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3.5 Sentence Types
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4 Coordinate and Subordinate Structures
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4.1 Basic Knowledge of Coordinate Structure
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4.2 Meaning and Usage of Coordinate Structure
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4.3 Parallelism
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4.4 Sentence Subordination
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5 Determiners
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5.1 Definition and Classification of Determiners
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5.2 Collocations about Determiners
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5.3 Functions of Determiners
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6 Adjectives and Adverbs
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6.1 Basic Knowledge of Adjectives
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6.2 Basic Knowledge of Adverbs
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6.3 Comparison with Adjectives and Adverbs
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6.4 Other Comparative Constructions
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7 Adjective/Relative Clauses
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7.1 Restrictive vs. Non-restrictive Adjective/Relative Clauses
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7.2 Choice of Relative Words
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7.3 Double vs. Embedded Relative Clauses
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8 Adverbial Clauses
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9 Verb and Verb Phrases
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9.1 Classification of Auxiliaries
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9.2 Classification of Main Verbs
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9.3 Finit Verb (Phrase) and Non-finite Verb Phrase
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10 Non-finite Clauses
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10.1 Basic Knowledge of Non-finite Clauses
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10.2 Syntactic Functions of Non-finite Clauses
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10.3 Infinitive Subject Dangling
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10.4 Differences between -ing participle and -ed participle
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10.5 Reduced Clauses
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11 Agreement: Matching Sentence Parts
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11.1 The Grammatical Subject of "Agreement"
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11.2 Subject-verb Concord
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11.3 Agreement of Pronouns and Antecidents
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12 Tense and Aspect
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12.1 Tense and Aspect Defined
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12.2 Use of Present/Past Tense and Progressive Aspect
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12.3 Use of Present/Past Tense and Perfective Aspect
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13 Modality
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14 Subjunctive Mood