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Course title Syntax I
Course code KAA/BSYN1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Ježková Šárka, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
SYNTAX: terminology, relations within the phrase and sentence SENTENCE ELEMENTS, SENTENCE PATTERNS, SENTENCE vs. CLAUSE, SUBJECT: form, semantic functions, grammatical, notional and general subject PREDICATE: form; auxiliary and lexical verbs; terminology varieties; finite x non-finite verb forms; syntactic types of the verb: transitive, intransitive, linking OBJECT: transitive verbs and their complementation; direct and indirect object, complement to the object. ADVERBIALS: form, position within the sentence; adjuncts semantic functions ADVERBIALS as sentence modifiers: conjuncts and disjuncts; comment clauses NEGATION IN ENGLISH AND CZECH: scope and focus of negation CONCORD / AGREEMENT: grammatical and notional, proximity rules CONCORD AND COORDINATION: apposition, appositive clauses COMPLEX NOUN PHRASE: head, pre- and post-modification; discontinuous noun phrases; Czech equivalents COMMUNICATIVE TYPES OF SIMPLE SENTENCE: statements, questions, commands, exclamations ENGLISH FRAGMENTARY SENTENCES: English Equivalents of Czech Subject-less Sentences: Czech verbal and verbo-nominal sentences; a variety of subjects in English

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
  • Contact teaching - 38 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 52 hours per semester
  • Individual project - 16 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 44 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide students with detailed theoretical knowledge of English sentence structure, particularly the structure of simple sentences, individual sentence elements, and sentence types from the perspective of intentional modality.
Students will acquire the theoretical knowledge, will be able to analyze sentences, identify individual sentence elements, and describe sentence patterns. They will acquire the skills necessary to define individual sentence elements and to create illustrative examples of individual structures. They will also acquire the competence to compare sentence structures in Czech and English.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KAA/BMFA2

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

active participation in seminars (maximum 2 classes can be missed) assignments according to instructions specified in lessons (via the Moodle system) written test (90 minutes): the application of their knowledge in the syntactic analysis and the production of assigned sentence structures; 60% minimum
Recommended literature
  • Biber, D., Conrad, S., Leech, G. Longman student grammar of spoken and written English - Workbook. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2007.
  • Biber, D., Conrad, S., Leech, G. Longman student grammar of spoken and written English.. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2006.
  • BIBER, D., JOHANSSON, S., LEECH, G., CONRAD, S., FINEGAN, E. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman, 1999.
  • Carter, Ronald . English grammar today : an A-Z of spoken and written grammar : with CD-ROM. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-521-73175-1.
  • Close, R.A. A University grammar of English Workbook. Essex: Longman, 1974. ISBN 0582522803.
  • DUŠKOVÁ, L. Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. Praha, 1989.
  • DUŠKOVÁ, L. Studies in the English Language, Part 2. Praha: Karolinum, ISBN 80-7184-613-9, 1999.
  • GRENBAUM, S., QUIRK, R. A Student's Grammar of English. Longman, 1994.
  • Hornová, L., Ježková, Š. An Introduction to English Syntax. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7395-884-8.
  • HUDDLESTON, R., GEOFFREY, K. Pullum et al. The Cambridge Grammar of the English language. Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
  • Chalker S. A Student's English Grammar Workbook. Longman, 2000.
  • MATHESIUS, V. A Functional Analysis of Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis.. Praha: Academia, ISBN 509-21-858, 1975.
  • QUIRK, R. et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow: Longman, 1985.
  • TÁRNYIKOVÁ J. Chapters from Modern English Syntax I. (A communicative approach). Olomouc: Palackého univerzita v Olomouci, 2nd edition, 1993.


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University of Pardubice, date of update: 15.03.2026 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026