Analysis of complex sentences: a probe into the practice of beginning students of Czech Language and Literature

Abstract

The study describes and analyzes research that was done among beginning students of Czech Language and Literature and that focused on the analysis of complex sentences. It focuses on (a) how successfully the respondents performed the tasks, and (b) what methods they used to perform them.

Thus it summarizes the critical points of complex sentence analysis.

Keywords

• syntactic analysis
• complex sentence
• main clause
• dependent clause
• instruction of Czech as mother tongue