English Language and Usage - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 111
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

1. To familiarise the students with the grammatical structures and their applications

2. To develop the ability to comprehend and analyse a literary text

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Clause Elements (SVOCA)

Use of Modals

(from A Practical English Grammar by Thomson & Martinet)

 

 

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Relative Clauses

Transformation of Sentences: Passivization, Reported Speech, Change of Degrees of Adjectives

7.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Theme Writing

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Precis Writing

8.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

CVs and Job Applications

Source Books: 

1. A Practical English Grammar by Thomson & Martinet

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

1. The Written Word, Vandana R. Singh (OUP)

2. The Oxford Guide to Writing and speaking (OUP) John Seely

3. A University Grammar of English, Quirk & Greenbaum

4. Write It: Micahael Dean (CUP)

5. A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet (OUP, 1996)

6. CVs and Job Applications by Judith Leigh (OUP, 2004)

7. Word Formation in English by Valerie Adams

Academic Year: 
2014-2015