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Chapter 14: VIETNAMESE

CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS FOR LANGUAGE: MORPHOSYNTAX

Note: Sentences marked with an asterisk (*) are not grammatical.
Feature Vietnamese English Examples of Errors
Possessives Noun + (prepositional ____’s (singular I took the shoe of him.*/I
phrase containing nouns) took his shoe.
pronoun) ____s’ (plural
nouns)
Adjectives Adjective follows noun Adjective precedes The ball red is
noun deflate.*/The red ball is
deflated.
Plurality Quantifiers precede Add an /s/ to the We saw three bird in
the noun to mark noun to mark tree.*/We saw three
plurality plurality birds in the tree.
Verb tense Context and addition 2 forms in present I am eat.*/I am eating.
of words before or tense:
after the verb convey I eat She eat.*/She ate.
the tense You eat
He eats Boy read.*/The boy will
We eat read.
You all eat
They eat

1 form in regular

past tense: ‐ed
Question Question words are Word order You want eat?*/Do you
formation used with intonation inversion or want to eat?
in a subject‐verb‐ addition of the
object structure modal “do”
Negation No precedes the verbs Not comes before I no want play.*/I don’t
an auxiliary verb want to play
When the copula is
used, the negation Do comes before a It no car me.*/That is not
phrase “không phải” is main verb my car
required

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