"Investigating the Ability to Construct English Sentences by First Year Students of Physical Education College in the University of Mosul"

Abstract

This paper investigates the ability of first year students in the College of Physical Education to construct English sentences. This is done by testing them during the lectures to write down all kinds of sentences correctly in order to help them to overcome the difficulties which they face when constructing such kind of sentences . The aim of this study is to discover the ability of the students in constructing sentences. The hypothesis of this paper is that the students do not have the ability to construct sentences. Therefore, they must know fundamental basic rules of grammar and be introduced to the elements of the sentences which are very necessary to make sentences. The procedure followed in this study is to ask the students to write all kinds of the sentences in the classroom. At the end, the students take all the information about the kinds of the sentences, the test of recognition is made upon them. The result of the test indicates that the rate of writing wrong sentences is more than writing correct sentences.