In this lesson, you will learn about:
What subordinate clauses are and how they are structured
What differentiates them from relative clauses
Two types of relative clauses
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What types of nouns we distinguish between:
Action verbs: including transitive and intransitive
No-Action verbs
Linking verbs and copular verbs
Auxiliary verbs
Modal verbs
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What types of nouns we distinguish between:
Proper, common, material, countable/uncountable nouns
Collective, concrete and abstract nouns
Pronouns
Personal and possessive pronouns
Compound nouns
Possessive pronouns
In this lesson, you will learn about:
The types of adjectives: descriptive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, positive, comparative and superlative
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What constitutes a phrase in the English language
About 5 different types of phrases: noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, gerund phrases and participle phrases.
In this lesson, you will learn about:
Where objects are positioned in a sentence in the English language
How direct objects differ from indirect objects
Unit 6+7+8+9 of the video-based Grammar for Secondary School Teachers course by Kamil Trzebiatowski.
Clauses and complex sentences
Direct speech and indirect speech
Voice and register
Cohesive devices and ambiguity
It consists of 33 video lessons, divided into 10 units.
1 - Words, sentences and letters
2 - Parts of speech and sentence
3 - Word formation and meaning
4 - Types of sentences
5 - Tenses
6 - Clauses and complex sentences
7 - Direct and indirect speech
8 - Voice and register
9 - Cohesive devices and ambiguity
10 - Punctuation
You can purchase it as individual video lessons in my shop (£4 per lesson) or units as bundles (at 25% off), but if you purchase the entire course here, you will save 75% of the original cost! You can then take the course on its dedicated website, which I will provide following your purchase along with the username/password.
The course involves well over 3 hours of viewing time and is the only such offer in the UK, attempting to plug the gap in grammar awareness. In particular, if you want to serve the needs of EAL learners, who need explicit grammar teaching within your subject, this course is indeed for you.