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Many thanks for the great ending you set up for today's last session.

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Content	Pages	Keys Practice Materials	Powerpoint Show	Podcast Link
27. Speech: quoted and conveyed Reporting clauses, tense, pronouns, time and place shifts	179 - 186	Practice Run 21	Powerpoint Show 27 Check slides 7 and 8 for the anaylsis of reporting verbs, skipped over in class.	Podcast 27
26: Embedding: Nominal and Relative Clauses Clauses as part of the basic sentence structure	169 - 175	Practice Run 20	Powerpoint Show Nominal and Relative Clauses	Podcast 26
25. Adverbial Clauses II Time, Purpose and Concession Clauses	159 - 164	Practice Run 19	Powerpoint Show Adverbial Clauses 2	Podcast 25
24. Adverbial Clauses I Definition and types of adverbial clauses	154 - 159		Powerpoint Show Adverbial Clauses 1	Podcast 24
23. Beyond Phrases: clause and sentence construction creating clauses and linking clauses into sentences	145 - 151	Practice Run 18	Powerpoint Show Beyond the Phrase	Podcast 23
22. Active and Passive Voice	138-143	Practice Run 17	Powerpoint Show Active and Passive voice	Podcast 22
21. Conditionals uploaded on 27 April instead of 20 April	132-135	Practice Run 16	Powerpoint Show Conditionals	Podcast 21
20. Modality 2 Defective Modal Auxilliaries and modal meanings	123-127	Practice Run 15	Powerpoint Show Modality 2	Podcast 20
19. Modality 1 Realisations and Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Modality	120-123		Powerpoint Show Modality 1	Podcast 19
18. Verb Forms: Future Reference	112-117	Practice Run 14	Powerpoint Show Future Reference	Podcast 18
17. Verb Forms: The Past Tenses	105-111	Practice Run 13	Powerpoint Show Past Tenses	Podcast 17
16. Verb Forms: The Present Perfect	100-105	Practice Run 12	Powerpoint Show Present tense III	Podcast 16
15. Verb Forms: The Present Continuous	95-99		Powerpoint Show Present tense II	Podcast 15
14. Verb Forms: The Present Simple	90-95		Powerpoint Show Present Tense I	Podcast 14
Welcome to Modern English Grammar II
13. Lexical Verbs II Intransitively used verbs, delexical verbs and phrasal verbs	85-87	Practice Run 11	Powerpoint 13. Lexical Verbs II	Podcast 13
12. Lexical Verbs and their Extensions Transitively used verbs	77-84		Powerpoint 12. Lexical Verbs and Extensions	Podcast 12
11. Introduction to the Grammar of the Verb and Verb Phrase	72-77	Practice Run 10	Powerpoint 11. Intro to Verbs and Verb Phrases	Podcast 11
10. Prepositional Phrases II Lexical, metaphorical and conventional/grammaticised meanings and prepositional stranding (or, as Churchill put it: "This is something up with which I will not put...")	67-69	Practice Run 9	Powerpoint 10. Prepositional Phrases II	Podcast 10
9. Prepositional Phrases I Morphology and phrase structure	62-67		Powerpoint 9. Prepositional Phrases	Podcast 9
8. Adverbs, AdvP and Adverbials Further ways of modification	54-59	Practice Run 8	Powerpoint 8. Adverbs etc	Podcast 8
7. Postmodification Ways of extending a Noun Phrase	50-51	Practice Run 7	Powerpoint 7. Post-modification	Podcast 7
6. Adjectives Place, categories and gradability Organisational Points Please check your emails for the form of the Mini-Exam (PDF and Word). It will be sent out at 8:00 sharp Return the filled in form by 8:30; the document must be named exactly as stated in instruction email. The lecture will be online as a Zoom session a Zoom Meeting Link You will be able to view the podcast after the session. However, it will not be navigable as comfortably as the podcasts have been up to now.	42-47	Practice Run 6	Powerpoint 6. Adjectives	Podcast 6
5. Pronouns Overview of all pronoun types in English	36-40	Practice Run 5	Powerpoint 5. Pronouns	Podcast 5
4. Determiners 2 / Genitives Possessive Determiners Demonstratives General Determiners Genitive as Determiner of the Head as postmodifying Prepositional Phrase	28-30 32-34	Practice Run 4	Powerpoint 4. Determiners and more	Podcast 4
3. Determiners 1 Overview Specific Determiners: definite article demonstratives	23-27	Practice Run 3	Powerpoint 3. Determiner 1	Podcast 3
2. Heads of NPs and Nouns	14-19	Practice Run 2 to be uploaded soon	Powerpoint 2. Heads of NPs and Nouns	Podcast 2
1. Basic Components of Clauses	7-11 Exceptionally: PDF for this session	Practice Run 1 Some more practice material: Parsing Exercise Key to Parsing Exercise	Powerpoint: 1 Basic Components	Podcast 1

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Modern English Grammar 1 and 2

Downloads for 2020/2021

27. Speech: quoted and conveyed

26: Embedding: Nominal and Relative Clauses

25. Adverbial Clauses II

24. Adverbial Clauses I

23. Beyond Phrases: clause and sentence construction

22. Active and Passive Voice

21. Conditionals uploaded on 27 April instead of 20 April

20. Modality 2

19. Modality 1

18. Verb Forms: Future Reference

17. Verb Forms: The Past Tenses

16. Verb Forms: The Present Perfect

15. Verb Forms: The Present Continuous

14. Verb Forms: The Present Simple

Welcome to Modern English Grammar II

13. Lexical Verbs II

12. Lexical Verbs and their Extensions

11. Introduction to the Grammar of the Verb and Verb Phrase

10. Prepositional Phrases II

9. Prepositional Phrases I

8. Adverbs, AdvP and Adverbials

7. Postmodification

6. Adjectives

Organisational Points

5. Pronouns

4. Determiners 2 / Genitives

3. Determiners 1

2. Heads of NPs and Nouns

1. Basic Components of Clauses