Investigation difficulties faced by Iraqi efl learners' in dealing with English sentence structure

الملخص EN

This study investigates the problem of Iraqi EFL university students Awareness of English Sentences Structure.

There are two main categories of sentence structure, one of which is identified by Quirk et all (1985: 191) divide them as four types such as (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamation), while the other one is that which includes other three types: (simple, compound, and complex) as identified by Alexander (1967: 1). The study aims at: Investigating the difficulties faced by students in recognizing and distinguishing English sentence structure.

It is hypothesized that: 1.

Students commit grammatical mistakes through making sentences by their own. 2.

They do not tend to use types of sentence structure in a right way.

To test the validity of the hypotheses above, a diagnostic test is formulated and administered to a representative sample of Iraqi EFL learners, Fourth Year Department of English, College of Education, University of Babylon 2009- 2010.

This study consists of five chapters.

Chapter One is devoted to the discussion of the problem, aims, hypotheses, procedures, limits, and value of the study .Chapter Two and three are about a theoretical survey of sentence structure and their types.

Chapter Four outlines the results of the test.

Chapter Five offers the conclusions as a theoretical ad practical parts.