Imperatives as Syntactically Used by Iraqi EFL UniversityStudents
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ImperativesAbstract
This study tries to investigate the use of imperative sentences as one of the major types of English simple sentence on the one hand and as a problematic topic area for Iraqi university students of English on the other hand. It tends to identify the students’ achievement in recognizing and producing such sentences and account for their errors and their sources. To gain these aims, a diagnostic test is formulated on a sample of (50) fourth-year English students at the college of Education of Babylon University during the academic year (2015-2016). The results obtained from analyzing the students' responses suggest that the students face difficulty in this subject. This is obvious form the general evaluation of the recognition and the production levels.Downloads
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