of spoken register. This study contributes to the perspectives of pragmatic aspects, semantic interpretations and vicinity of syntactic structures of existential there constructions. The data collection of this study was derived from seven English novels... tokens, respectively. The framework of pragmatic aspects, semantic interpretations and syntactic structures follows Ward and Biner (1995), Jiang & Hyland (2020) and Radford (2009), respectively. The pragmatic aspects of existential there constructions

structures hypothesized to present obstacles are syntactic classes, pronoun references, inversion, coordination of noun phrases, verb phrases and adverb-like phrases, and phrasal and clausal modifiers as interrupting modifiers. The researchers designed...This research studies different types of sentence structures regarded as hindrances to an understanding of English poetry among Thai students, especially beginners, and suggests teaching activities to help reduce such problems. The sentence

tend to place a very heavy emphasis on literal meanings of source messages and faithful reproductions of source meanings through new linguistic systems (e.g. altering syntactic structures, changing lexical forms, substituting synonyms), which may

This study examined the syntactic structures of raised and unraised conditions, semantic interpretationsand pragmaticaspects of theverb seemin English novels(i.e.,Yes, Robert, I shall be ready: it seems to me that I ought to go). The previous... and unraised conditions of the verb seem. In regard to the data analysis,the syntactic frameworkof raised and unraised conditions of the verb seemfollows Radford (2009) where the theoretical analysis of the verb seemis classified intotwo camps:expletive itand

tourism. Almost every country has their own catchy, pungent taglines to attract new tourists. This study examined 100 tourism slogans available online and investigated the frequency of occurrences of the syntactic structures in the slogans. After the most... frequently used syntactic structures were identified, they were analysed further for classifications of sentence types and structures in order to gain insight into patterns of grammatical forms and functions. The findings showed that in terms of occurrences

. Regarding literal translation, four Thai relativizers were found: /tʰ /, /s ŋ/, /pʰ /, and /pʰ s ŋ/. While literal translation suggested parallel syntactic structures between the English and Thai relative clauses, translation adjustment underscored... clause structure and its translation strategies.

eleventh graders who answered a questionnaire and 8 EFL teachers who took part in semi-structured interviews. Then the collected quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (i.e. frequencies/ percentages) and content... rates and challenging vocabulary), semantic and syntactic problems (i.e. long utterances), and discoursal problems (i.e. implied meanings, unfamiliar topics, and organization of ideas). The results are discussed in relation to the Vietnamese EFL context

80% on the structures of singular/plural head with modification. However, deviant production was found on irregular nouns. The results indicated the learners’ target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement but incomplete knowledge...The study investigated the representations of L1 Thai learners on English number agreement, a form which is non-existent in Thai. It is hypothesized that the L2 learners have target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement

in literaturesareclassifiedintodifferent linguistic perspectives. Morphologically, the low frequency of gerundsis explained by lexicalization(Yule, 2006). The use of gerundsin literatureare found with four types of syntactic structures, which are the subject, complements of the verb...This study examined the use of gerunds, such as chopping again as when I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg in English literatures through morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis. While previous studies

and an experimental (collaborative prewriting) group. The utilized prewriting task was structured, focusing on ideas generation, selection, and organization, and the main task was problem-solution paragraph writing. Independent-sample t-tests revealed that accuracy... was comparable across groups; however, the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group on text length, some lexical and syntactic complexity measures, and all rating scores, and the effect size concerning text length was large. Overall