Includes:Theoretical materials with a detailed analysis of the topic and practical tasks. Answers to a huge number of questions in two . doc files with interactive table of contents for easy document search, which can be used as spurs. Information collected from various authoritative sources (lectures, textbooks, encyclopedias, studies of famous linguists - marked with a surname). List of topics:1), Grammar and semantics. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. Levels of language. The word and the morpheme. Traditional (functional) classification of morpheme. Distributional classification of morphemes. Synthetic and analytical forms in grammar. Identification of parts of speech. Notional parts of speech. Functional parts of speech. Syntactic classes of words (Ch.) Fries), The three layer structure of the vocabulary (M. Y. Bloch, The structure of grammatical category (oppositions), The category of number. The category of case. The English article. The category of gender. Non-finite forms of the verb (verbids), The category of tense. The category of aspect . The category of mood. The phrase, its relation to the word and the sentence. The actual division of the sentence. The communicative type of the sentence. The simple sentiment and its parts. The concept of paradigmatic syntax. The kernel sentence in paradigmatic syntax. The composite sentence, its structure and derivation. Complex sentence. Compound sentence. Semi-composite sentence. Utterance (dicteme) as the elementary unit of text2), The problem of rules in grammar. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations in grammar. Levels of the language. The word and the morpheme. Traditional (functional) classification of morpheme. Distributional classification of morphemes. Synthetic and analytical forms in grammar. The identification of parts of speech. The notional parts of speech in English. The functional parts of speech in English. Syntactic Classes of Words. Ch. Fries. The three-Layer structure of vocabulary (M. Blokh). The structure of grammatical category. Categorial oppositions i