AVALUATION ABOUT THE CONTENTS COVERED THIS YEAR IN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR At the beginning of this academic year, I was a little bit afraid that, I could not achieve my goals in Introduction to English grammar, because, I didn’t know many things yet, but now I can say that, this subject helped me a lot on developing my academic background . When we started learning this subject I was in doubts in almost everything, and sometimes when I did not have any doubt it was because I did not know what to say concerning the lesson. I still remember when we spoke about the ‘’ nouns’’ I already knew that nouns name things that are living and non-living, places and ideas. Since there are so many of them, they can be grouped in many different ways. NOUN = proper and common The common nouns are divided into abstract and concrete. Eg: love, desk, etc. What I did not know is that there is also ‘’noun phrases’’ because, when I was studying English in a training centre, they did not mention it. Now, as I have already studied I can say that the noun phrase is a group of words in a sentence which together behave as a noun. Eg: the man sitting in the corner is my brother. On the other hand, I learnt many others grammar rules, like the types of determiners, the verb category, adjectives and so on. I did not know anything about the gradable and ungradable adjectives, when teacher spoke about it, I did not know what teacher meant, but when he explained I understood immediately, I found interesting the examples he gave, and since then I started using them. Eg: she is difficult to please. Eg: He is hard to teach. In the first assignment teacher said’’ create a short story whether true or not ‘’, I did not know in which way I should start from. I made many mistakes in word order, punctuation and writing that when teacher corrected them all, and gave us back, he said that we had many difficulties in word order, reason why he should teach us how to do it. Then, he gave a lesson talking about the verb complementation. In this lesson I could learn that, there are five (5) clause elements in English, which are: subject (s), verb (v), complement (c), object (o) and adverbial (a) and we also have seven (7) clause types: SV: it’s raining. SVA: I’m going home. SVC: you look tired. SVO: I killed my dog. SVOA: Silvino put the marker on the table. SVOC: we elected him president SVOO: she gave me a piece of cake. Now, I can say that whenever I want to write a text, I must take into account the word order as I have learnt.