Comparative Constructions 1

The course is at the intersection of grammar, writing, and translating, seeking to enable the beginning students of the department to move smoothly between English and Arabic and between Arabic and English. As such, the course is an occasion for students to put side by side grammatically well-formed sentences in both languages. To do so, the course gives hands-on general practice in comparing, contrasting, formulating, and translating Arabic and English constructions on grammatical principles. In particular, the course focuses on constructions including open-ended parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) and their close-ended counterparts (determiners, prepositions), and grammatical categories such as tense, aspect, modality, etc.