Luận văn An investigation into syntactic and semantic features of instructions for use of household appliances in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into syntactic and semantic features of instructions for use of household appliances in english and vietnamese: ...ntences are declarative sentences having the modals come after subjects. For instance: (18) Linda may go. In Vietnamese, according to Diep Quang Ban, sentences are also classified into declarative, imperative and exclamative based on communication purpose [2, p.224-239]. Declaratives in ...s per right chart. 4.1.2 The syntactic features of Vietnamese in ITOHAs 4.1.2.1 Imperatives a. Affirmative imperative There are two ways to express imperative meanings in Vietnamese, which consists of using specialized words and using non- specialized words (Ban, 2004). For instance: ...ponents of ITOHAs in English and Vietnamese are different in many places. English possesses such grammatical categories such as mood, modal finites, distal modals whereas in Vietnamese, such lexical categories as particles, indefinite words, address terms of various kinds are the effective m...