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Complement Constructions in English: Fairly Difficult for EFL Language Learners
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Fazeli, Fatemeh; Shokrpour, Nasrin – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Complement constructions vary significantly in English and Persian. There are more complementation structures in English than in Persian and a complement structure in Persian might have more than one equivalent in English. Producing complement structures (CSs) in English is very difficult for native speakers of Persian, especially in an EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages