2. SOME SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS 40PART III

3.2. Some suggested solutions 40

Part III: Conclusion 46

Refreence 48

Note : [135, 8] : example taken from page 135 of the book numbered 8

in the list of the reference.

Part I: Introduction

I. Reasons for choosing the study

English is an international and living languague. It is used widely all over

the world because of its important role in every field of society. In Vietnam, it

becomes more and more popular and it is being taught in most of schools.

However, due to the differences of the two languagues, learning English well is

not easy.

In daily spoken languague, especally in literary languague, we often meet

adverbial ing-participle clauses. For example:

Being a student of Vinh University, I always try my best to study well.

Sometimes we meet some wrong adverbial ing-participle clauses, such as:

Crossing the road, a car hit him.

Learners may translate this sentence from Vietnamese one:

Khi vợt qua đờng, một chiếc xe đâm vào hắn ta.

While the right sentence is:

Crossing the road, he was hit by a car.

( the actual subject of the verb “crossing” is “he” not “a car”)

Being students of English, we do find it interesting and necessary to study

this proplem. Morever, it is a good chance for us to undrestand more deeply about

adverbial ing-participle clauses and to practise the scientific study skills.

That is the reason why we choose this subject for our study.

II. Aims of the study

Adverbial ing-participle clauses is a complicated problem which

causes some confusions for Vietnamese learners. So in this study, we

would like to give an overview about such these clauses, especially their

semantic functions. Further more, it helps us and other people to widen the

knowledge of English.

III. Scope of the study

This thesis is about adverbial ing-participle clauses, especially , we focus on

the semantic functions of adverbial ing-participle clauses and the interpretation

those into Vietnamese.We also bring out learners’ confusions and some suggested

solutions.

IV. Methods of the study

- Descriptive method

- Comparative method

- Analytic and synthetic method

V. Design of the study

The thesis consists of three main parts: