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Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2020
The use of present and past participles and gerunds was summarized and illustrated from various examples cited or given, on the basis of the writer's teaching experience, and extensive review of different English grammar books, reference books, magazines, newspapers, books, English dictionaries, and online articles, in order for English language…
Descriptors: Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Nouns
Siu, Fiona K. P. – Online Submission, 2023
This research aims to investigate the effects of two teaching sequences -- interleaving and blocking -- on the participants' use of three types of cohesive devices (conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs and prepositions [thereafter CCPs]) in their argumentative essays. The participants included 50 native Cantonese-speaking university students taking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Form Classes (Languages)
Alqahtani, Fatmah – Online Submission, 2019
The subject slot is a main part of any English sentence (Martha & Robert, 2012). The recognition of the subject slot is therefore a crucial step in understanding and comprehending a sentence. This paper studies the effect of the internal structure of the subject slot on its recognition by students learning English as a foreign language (EFL).…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
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Akkaya Önal, Meriç; Serpil, Revan – Online Submission, 2020
How languages are acquired and what stages learners go through has been the focus in language teaching area, and this cross-sectional study investigated the use of English adverbs by elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate level Turkish EFL students at Anadolu University School of Foreign Languages by analyzing it from acquisitional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tsuchida, Takehiro – Online Submission, 2011
Subject-verb concord in English existential constructions is often viewed as problematic from both prescriptive and descriptive approaches to grammar and causes considerable confusion among teachers and learners of English as a second language (ESL). This paper aims to disentangle debates over the curious usage of the "there" + plural noun phrase…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Verbs
Mogahed, Mogahed M. – Online Submission, 2012
This article deals with the issue of using punctuation marks correctly. The misuse of punctuation marks affects meaning; therefore, it affects translation. As a result, the writer should pay more attention to punctuation marks and not to use them randomly. Simultaneously, the reader has to take care of the punctuation marks when interpreting a…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Role, Selection, Translation
Abdulsada, Mohammed Nasser – Online Submission, 2004
Wish expression is the way by which wishes are expressed. These wishes are either fulfilled or unfulfilled. There are certain devices that are used in English and Arabic and these devices are used to express wishes. Fulfilled wishes are expressed by most devices of wish expression in both English and Arabic. In turn, unfulfilled wishes are…
Descriptors: English, Semitic Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Usage