Modal verbs in English essays written by Czech secondary school students

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Authors

SLÁDKOVÁ Věra

Year of publication 2019
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Faculty of Education

Citation
Description This paper presents the findings of frequency analysis of modal verbs and their complementation in 390 English school-leaving essays written by Czech secondary-school students in a high-stakes exam. The findings reveal a very high proportion of correct complementation patterns, but predominantly with lexical verbs at A1 and A2 CEFR levels while complementation by past-tense forms of lexical verbs and the absence of complementation are the most frequent errors.
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