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CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE: MORPHOSYNTAX

Note: Sentences marked with an asterisk (*) are not grammatical.

Feature Czech English Examples of Errors
Word order Flexible. Allowed Strict Subject‐Verb‐ To store went by car
orders include: SVO, Object order aunt.* /My aunt went
OVS, SOV, OSV. to the store.
Possessives Add different ending ’s The dog of my mother
to name or object is sick.*/My mother’s
that is possessed dog is sick.
Verb inflection 5‐6 forms, 2 present tense A variety of verb errors.
determined by forms: Unmarked third person
subject: I eat present tense is a
Ja (I) Jím You eat common error.
Ty (you‐informal) Jíš He/She/It eats
Vy (you‐formal) Jíte We eat He eat bread.*/He eats
On, Ona, Ono(He, They eat bread.
she, it) Jí
My (we) Jíme
Oní (they) Její
Pronouns Pronouns are omitted Pronoun is always Drinks water.*/He
when they can be required drinks water.
inferred from
context.
Regular past Many forms, One form (‐ed) Past tense verbs may be
tense determined by unmarked:
subject He play baseball.*/ He
played baseball.
Negatives “no” precedes verb “not” follows She not eat. */ She
copula, doesn’t eat.
“don’t/doesn’t”
precedes any other
verb
Double Allowed Not allowed I don’t want no more.
negatives */ I don’t want any
more.
Question Marked by inflection Word order You like this?*/ Do you
formation inversion or addition like this?
of “do”
Articles Do not exist One definite: the; I have dog.*/ I have a
two indefinite: a, an dog.
Prepositions Present, but there is Present, but there is I saw it in television.*/ I
not a 1:1 not a one‐to‐one saw it on television.
correspondence with correspondence
English prepositions with Czech 21
(Barton, 2012; Czech, n.d.; Remediosova & Cechova, 2005)
prepositions.
Present Does not exist Exists I drink a soda now.*/
continuous I’m drinking a soda
verb form now.

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