Luận Văn Adverbials in Vietnamese and English

Abstract


In linguistic study, adverbials are considered as one of the most interesting parts of languages. Most linguists would state that adverbials have become a popular term in grammar investigations, especially in Vietnamese (Nguyen & Nguyen, 2004). Adverbials in Vietnamese play an important role and they are widely used not only in literature but also in daily conversations. Similarly, adverbials are the most diverse grammatical structure in English. They are regarded as indispensable subordinate parts in sentences. This paper focuses on a contrastive view about adverbials in Vietnamese and Vietnamese through three aspects: forms, functions and positions. I hope that this paper will help language learners to have certain knowledge about adverbials in two language systems as well as avoid some errors when using them. Additionally, some teaching suggestions discussed in this paper can give some ideas for teachers to design suitable tasks about adverbials.