Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

YOU 204 — Syntax of Yorùbá Language I

YOU department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• identify the word classes or parts of speech of the language
• classify types of sentences in the language
• analyse the sentence structure of the language
• identify qualifiers in simple sentences
• classify different types of sentences in the language
• give examples of sentences with serial verbs, and

Course contents

Introduction to the word classes of the Yorùbá language. Nouns. Type of nouns. Pronoun. Verbs. Type of verbs. Qualifiers. Adjectives. Prepositions. Adverbs and adverbials, among others. The sentence and its parts or constituents. Phrase. Word. Grammatical functions of the sentence parts. Different sentence types. Declarative sentence.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 204.

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