Details and Learning Outcomes for Advanced Grammar Levels I, II, & III
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Achieving ILR Level 3 (General Professional Proficiency) is facilitated through the following Advanced Grammar and Conversation courses within the English for Applied Purposes Program.
Advanced Grammar I
Upon completion of this class, students will understand and be able to use:
- Verb tenses including simple present, simple past, simple future, present continuous, past continuous, future continuous, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous
- Subject-verb agreement
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Articles
- Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
- Personal pronouns and maintaining agreement with other nouns and pronouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- Impersonal pronouns
- Different forms of “other”
Advanced Grammar II
Upon completion of this class, students will understand and be able to use:
- Modal verbs to express necessity, lack of necessity, prohibition, desirability, obligation, and unfulfilled intention
- Degrees of certainty in the present, past, and future
- Ability
- Preferences
- Passive voice
- Participle adjectives
- Noun clauses
- Quoted and indirect speech
- Using adjective clauses and reducing them to adjective phrases
- Punctuating adjective clauses
- Gerunds and infinitives following verbs
Advanced Grammar III
Upon completion of this class, students will understand and be able to use:
- Infinitives for purpose
- Infinitives following adjectives
- Infinitives with “too” and “enough”
- Passive forms of infinitives and gerunds
- Gerunds or passive infinitives following “need”
- Simple and progressive forms of verbs following perception verbs
- Causative verbs
- Parallel structures when using coordinating conjunctions
- Correlative conjunctions
- Separating/connecting independent clauses with periods/comma
- Conditionals using “if”, “whether”, “even if”, “in case”, “unless”, “only if”
- Modifying adverbial phrases “upon” + -ing
- Distinguishing among prepositional phrases, conjunctions, transitional phrases, and adverbial clauses expressing cause and effect, contrast, and condition
- Using “if”, “wish”, “would” to express unreal conditions and wishes in the present, past, and future
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