Upon successful completion of the course, each participant should be able to:
• Identify parts of speech
• Parse grammatical slots and their hierarchy of constituents, including heads and attributes
• Describe the status of verb phrases in terms of tense, modality, and aspect
• Employ tree diagrams to parse simple, compound, and complex sentences
• Rearrange statements into yes/no questions, wh-questions, and negative statements
• Understand the structure/effect of active and passive sentences
• Analyze/construct relative clauses and relative clauses that have been reduced to phrases
• Analyze/construct noun clauses, gerunds, and infinitives
• Add nonrestrictive modifiers, absolute phrases, and adverb clauses to sentences