The performance of Iraqi EFL University students in modifying and qualifying predication

الملخص EN

Modification is the grammatical ties that exist between an adjective and its noun or a verb and its adverb.

It is a largely optional function performed for instance by adjectives in the noun phrases or intensifying adverbs in the adverb phrases.

A modifier is an optional element in phrase or clause structure that adds descriptive information to the head.

Qualification is a term used in syntax to refer to certain types of structure dependence of one grammatical unit upon another and it expresses some quality that is assigned directly to the person or thing.

It could be used with adjectives, nouns, and adverbs.

Predication is an act of saying something about a subject and the predicate must contain an adverb that requires another sentence element to complete it.

There are different type of predicates e.

g.

verbs only predicate, objects , and adverbs.