ENGLISH 350 - COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR             Edwin Duncan, Inst. 
Fall 1995 - Linthicum 109                     Office:  LI 301E
Section 001 -  9:30-10:45 Tues.-Thurs.        Phone: 830-2847
Section 002 - 11:00-12:15 Tues.-Thurs.


                       COURSE INFORMATION


REQUIRED TEXT: Donald Emery, Sentence Analysis.


COURSE COVERAGE: This course will cover the three most important
contemporary descriptions of English syntax (i.e., traditional,
structural, and transformational) with emphasis on the basic
concepts and terminology of the first.  


COURSE OBJECTIVES: Students who successfully complete the course
will 1) comprehend the relationships that words and phrases have
to one another in the English sentence, 2) master the terminology
used to discuss these relationships, and 3) learn the fundamental
concepts of each of the contemporary approaches to grammar.


COURSE GRADES: Course grades will be based on four tests and a
daily grade:

               First Test          15%
               First Major Exam    25%
               Second Major Exam   25%
               Third Major Exam    25%
               Daily Grade         10%

The first test will consist wholly of diagramming sentences.  The
second test, or First Major Exam, will test students' mastery of
compound structures and phrases as well as the grammatical
terminology used to describe them; it will be part short-answer
questions and part diagramming.  The third test, or Second Major
Exam, will test students' understanding of clauses in addition to
the concepts of traditional grammar covered in the previous
tests.  The final test, or Third Major Exam, will cover the
fundamentals of structural and transformational grammar; it
consists of a series of short-answer questions.  The daily grade
will be made up of timely submission of assigned homework and of
the quality of classroom participation.