1) Classification of English and Slovak as language types; varieties of English; criteria, varieties in grammar; national standards of English; grammatical differences between British and American English 2) Word classes and conversion 3) Morphological elements (morphemes, morphs, allomorphs, words) and syntactic elements (sentences, clauses, phrases); obligatory and optional synstactic elements 4) Phrases and their composition (phrase elements); premodifiers and postmodifiers in noun phrases and other phrase types; prederminers, central determiners, posdeterminers in noun phrases 5) Clasification and characteristic features of nouns, their morphological categories
a) Number, differences between English and Slovak, plual of English nouns (including foreign plurals), plural and meaning b) Countability, countable and uncountable nouns, nouns which can be either countable or uncountable, partitive constructions c) Case of English and Slovak nouns, the English genitive and its grammatical status, genitive meanings, choice of the 's- genitive and the of- genitive, group genitive, independent genitive, double genitive (or post genitive) d) Gender phenomena in English and Slovak, grammatical status of gender in the two languages e) Proper nouns, proper nouns and their definiteness f) Definiteness, use of articles with individual classes od nouns, noun phrases with zero determiner, generic and specific reference, characteristic of English articles (definite, indefinite, zero), definiteness in English and Slovak
6) Characteristic and division of pronouns, grammatical caterories of pronouns, description of each pronoun class pointing out the main differences between English and Slovak 7) Characteristic and classification of adjectives, syntactic functions of adjectives, adjectives in postposition, substantivization of adjectives, nationality words, complementation of