English 340 Unit 1: Introduction

This unit introduces the sounds and structure of Modern English, and gives you some practise in parsing Modern English sentences. The first section part is a list of useful sites explaining parts of speech and their functions; the second part has a set of exercises you can do to practice parsing.

Resources

• Grammatical terms* (Micron Style Guide)
• Parts of speech (Introduction and exercises, by UVic ELC)
• Parts of speech (U Ottawa)
• Automatic sentence parser* (Carnegie Mellon U)
• Automatic sentence parser (Syddansk U)

* Note: this appears to be unavailable, and may have disappeared permanently.

Exercises

In the exercises, [S] indicates a standard exercise using drop-down selectors, and [D] indicates a drag-and-drop version of the exercise. If you're on a small screen, the drag-drop version may be difficult to use, so you should choose the standard version.

• Parsing a sentence 1: Parts of speech [S] [D]
• Parsing a sentence 2: Parts of speech [S] [D]
• Parsing a sentence 3: Function [S] [D]
• Parsing a sentence 4: Function [S] [D]
• Parsing a sentence: Homework