Grammar in Literature

Susan Lavender is Head of International English at the University of Chichester, UK. She has taught English Language, Language through Literature and other aspects of Applied Linguistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students for more than 25 years. She has authored materials on English grammar for international students and is particularly interested in the application of task-based interactive learning to the study of grammar through literature.Stavroula Varella is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at King’s College London, UK. She previously taught in the Department of English at the University of Chichester, where she developed undergraduate and postgraduate modules examining the interface between Language and Literature. Her teaching interests include Stylistics, Discourse Analysis and Historical Linguistics, and she has published work on language contact, term formation and health discourse.

• 1 English Grammar.- Short Narrative 1 Eveline (1914) by James Joyce.- 2 Morphemes, Words and Lexical Categories.- 3 Nouns and Noun Phrases.- 4 Verbs 1: Tense and Aspect.- 5 Verbs 2: Modality, Catenation and Multi-Word Verbs.- 6 Verb Phrases.-  7 Basic Clauses.- 8 Sentences.- 9 Connecting Ideas: Clauses Revisited.- 10 Framing and Compiling: Sentences and the Text.- 11 Bringing It All Together 1: A Holistic Review of Chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Based on Narrative 1.- 12 Bringing It All Together 2: A Holistic Appreciation of Narrative 1.- Short Narrative 2 A Woman’s College from the Outside by Virginia Woolf (1926).- 13 Moving on 1: A Holistic Review of Chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Based on Narrative 2.- 14 Moving on 2: A Holistic Appreciation of Narrative 2.- Suggested Answers.- A Final Word.- Recommendations for Further Reading.- Glossary.- Index.