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Describing language provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 24 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

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24 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • This free course introduces you to the basics of describing language. Using examples from English, you’ll learn how words are built, how they fit together to make sentences, and what labels like ...

Syllabus

    • Introduction and guidance
    • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week1Week 1: Making words
    • Introduction
    • 1 What is language?
    • 2 English is one language among many
    • 2.1 What is the biggest language in the world?
    • 2.2 Where does English get its words from?
    • 3 Introducing morphology
    • 4 Free and bound morphemes
    • 4.1 More about morphemes
    • 4.2 Adding more morphemes
    • 4.3 What are the morphemes telling you?
    • 5 This week’s quiz
    • 6 Summary of Week 1
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week2Week 2: Nouns: naming things, places, people and ideas
    • Introduction
    • 1 Different kinds of words
    • 1.1 Word classes
    • 1.2 The word classes you will focus on
    • 2 This week’s words
    • 2.1 Different kinds of nouns
    • 2.2 Can you spot the different types of noun?
    • 2.3 All the noun types together
    • 3 Nouns make more nouns
    • 4 This week’s quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 2
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week3Week 3: Verbs 1: how we describe what we do
    • Introduction
    • 1 A doing word?
    • 1.1 How verbs can shape meaning
    • 2 Verbs and morphemes
    • 3 Verb + verb = verb
    • 3.1 Auxiliary verbs
    • 3.2 Modal auxiliaries
    • 3.3 How modal auxiliaries can add nuance
    • 3.4 The range of functions of modal auxiliaries
    • 4 Categorising verbs
    • 5 This week’s quiz
    • 6 Summary of Week 3
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week4Week 4: Verbs 2: how verbs work together
    • Introduction
    • 1 Present, past and future?
    • 1.1 Tense in English
    • 1.2 Participles: verbs without any tense
    • 2 Regular and irregular verbs
    • 2.1 Irregular verbs at work
    • 2.2 What you know so far
    • 3 Verbs in other languages
    • 4 This week’s quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 4
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week5Week 5: Adjectives: adding more information
    • Introduction
    • 1 What are things like?
    • 1.1 Finding the adjectives
    • 2 Types of adjectives
    • 2.1 What can adjectives tell us?
    • 2.2 Where do adjectives go?
    • 2.3 Comparing using adjectives
    • 2.4 Just talking nonsense?
    • 3 Adjectives working together
    • 4 New, improved! Adjectives and advertising
    • 4.1 Write your own advert
    • 5 This week’s quiz
    • 6 Summary of Week 5
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week6Week 6: All the bits in between
    • Introduction
    • 1 Adverbs
    • 1.1 Can you recognise an adverb?
    • 1.2 More things you can do with adverbs
    • 2 How words work together
    • 2.1 Open and closed class words
    • 2.2 Not all word classes can be expanded
    • 2.3 Can you tell what class a word is from its shape?
    • 3 Closed class words
    • 3.1 Pronouns
    • 3.2 Determiners
    • 3.3 Prepositions
    • 3.4 Conjunctions
    • 4 This week’s quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 6
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week7Week 7: Putting it all together
    • Introduction
    • 1 The structure of language
    • 1.1 How to build a language
    • 1.2 Where do the words go?
    • 1.3 The order of words (in English)
    • 2 English sentence structure
    • 2.1 Subjects and objects
    • 2.2 A Latin headline
    • 3 How sentences are built
    • 4 Adding more information
    • 4.1 SVOCA
    • 5 This week’s quiz
    • 6 Summary of Week 7
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week8Week 8: Language in the real world
    • Introduction
    • 1 Sentence forms
    • 1.1 Asking questions
    • 1.2 Questions in other languages
    • 1.3 Giving commands and making exclamations
    • 1.4 Spotting different sentence forms
    • 2 Structure and sentence functions
    • 3 Combining sentences
    • 3.1 Making longer sentences
    • 3.2 Making more complex sentences
    • 4 Language in the real world
    • 4.1 Collocation
    • 5 Playing with language
    • 6 This week’s quiz
    • 7 Summary of Week 8
    • Next steps?
    • Tell us what you think
    • References
    • Acknowledgements

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