Syllabus

Required reading

• Hilde Hasselg?rd, Per Lysv?g & Stig Johansson: English Grammar: Theory and Use. 2nd ed., 2012. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. Chapters 1-15.

Recommended study aids

• H. Hasselg?rd and P. Lysv?g: English Grammar: Theory and Use. A Key to Exercises. Universitetsforlaget. (Has a chapter on how to write grammar papers.)
• H. Hasselg?rd: A Glossary of Grammatical Terms. http://folk.uio.no/hhasselg/terms.html

Canvas

• The room for ENG1100 will contain lecture handouts and relevant links for the course. Further material can be found at the Grammar Website: http://folk.uio.no/hhasselg/grammar/

Oslo Interactive English (OIE)

• OIE provides interactive exercises for students of English at the University of Oslo, as a supplement to the courses ENG-1100, ENG-1102, and ENG-1111. All exercises can be solved by the use of a text corpus. http:/folk.uio.no/signeo/OIE/
• Also try Trivial Corpus Pursuit at http:/folk.uio.no/signeo/OIE/tcp.php For USERNAME and PASSWORD, please contact the teacher.

Recommended supplementary literature

-Simpler than English Grammar: Theory and Use:

• David Crystal: Rediscover Grammar. London: Longman. (An easy reference grammar with cartoons and very clear lay-out.)
• Magne Dypedahl, Hilde Hasselg?rd and Berit L?ken 2006. Introducing English Grammar. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
• Per Lysv?g, Stig Johansson: Going for Grammar. Oslo: Aschehoug 1995. (In Norwegian: textbook for the ¡®videreg?ende skole¡¯)

-Same level as /more advanced than EGTU:

• Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Geoffrey Leech: Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, 2002. Pearson Education.
• Sidney Greenbaum, Randolph Quirk: A Student¡¯s Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
• Stig Johansson, Per Lysv?g: Understanding English Grammar. Vols. I & II. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
• Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik: A Communicative Grammar of English. London: Longman.