The Analysis of Sentence Structure and Grammatical Features for ESL Writing Texts
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Analyzing ESL texts for syntax purposes provides an opportunity to learn about and build upon their writing skills. Teachers can also identify students' writing weaknesses and can use different strategies to develop their writing skills. It is noted that the purpose of each text is determined by the language and the means used to express the goals of writing both linguistically and practically. Quantitative and qualitative analysis used in this research to analyze the two texts in order to discover structural and grammatical errors. Where texts of the second and fourth levels were selected from an English language learning center. This research will analyze simple, compound and complex sentences respectively. Some of the results of this research are that both writers face some difficulties in punctuation and complements, and also the second-level learner has difficulties in forming a complete sentence such as subject and verb agreement, while the fourth-level learner has difficulty writing long sentences.
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