 Welcome! Are you afraid of syntactic trees? Do terms like subcategorization or thematic roles frighten you? Have you ever been confused by terms such as adjuncts or compliments? Well if this is so, here is the right linguistic option for you that will help to overcome all your fears. The VLC repository, VLC 106 syntax part 1, our gentle introduction to theoretical syntax. If you have an account on the OER VLC website which is of course free, accessing the repository is simple. Just log in with your personal data and you will find the repository on your personalised dashboard or in your course overview. A click on the bottom of the VLC 106 tile leads you to the repository start site where you have access to all modules starting with a preliminary section with advice and help on how to use the units. And here are the current content units of VLC 106. As you can see we have introductory units that look at syntactic categories, syntactic functions and provide a general overview of the term grammar. Starting with an introduction to generative grammar we then discuss the general principles of phrase structure and those of X-bar syntax, the most well-known formalism for the hierarchical presentation of constituent structure. An overview of the lexicon as the second big component of any modern grammar and a discussion of the most well-known variants of generative grammar concludes this introductory repository. The list of units is updated and quality assured on a regular basis. By the way, by the way in our second syntax repository VLC 107 which builds upon 106 the specific components and mechanisms of different generative grammars as well as the principles of computational syntax will be discussed in detail. And our teaching and learning concept well studying online on the virtual linguistics campus simply means go through each unit at your own pace, tick off an activity you have worked through and make use of as many VLC options as possible. And if you don't know what to do first use the how to proceed options at the beginning of each unit. And as most of you know each unit should be finished with a mastery test where you can earn your personal VLC batch. Maybe you prefer using your mobile device. Well if so feel free to download the Moodle app, log in and study where and whenever you want. Well that's it. The rest is up to you. Thanks for your attention and see you on the virtual linguistics campus.