A student's English grammar:

1. The English language; 2. A general framework; 3. Verbs and auxiliaries; 4. The semantics of the verb phrase; 5. Nouns and determiners; 6. Pronouns; 7. Adjectives and adverbs; 8. The semantics and grammar of adverbials; 9. Prepositions and prepositional phrases; 10. The simple sentence; 11. Sentence types and discourse functions; 12. Pro-forms and ellipsis; 13. Coordination; 14. The complex sentence; 15. Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses; 16. Complementation of verbs and adjectives; 17. The noun phrase; 18. Theme, focus, and information processing; 19. From sentence to text. [JR]