AcknowledgementsI am indebted to our university for providing me with such a precious opportunity of writing this thesis to conclude my four years’ undergraduate education. In the course of writing, I have gained more acknowledge and enlightenment than I expected.I would like to express my most sincere appreciation to my respected supervisor, Ms. Wang Xiaoru, an amiable teacher, who patiently and painstakingly fulfilled the task of reading critiquing, shaping and polishing all the preliminary drafts of this thesis.In addition, my thanks also go to my family as well as the classmates who have offered me help and suggestion.AbstractIn the process of English learning, the differences between English and Chinese syntax, one of the major difficulties, often puzzles most Chinese students, for different people have different ways of thought which lead to different habitual expression. This dissertation focuses on contrastive study of syntax of English and Chinese with the purpose to explore the similarities and particularly dissimilarities between these two unrelated languages. It is hoped that through contrastive study, it will be easier for Chinese students to get a better command of English. What’s more important, the result of the contrastive study, which improves their competence and performance. A contrastive study of different languages not only helps to form a new method, which can be applied in language teaching and translation but also benefits the inter-lingual communication. By contrastive study, language learners can gain a better insight of peculiarities of their mother language and the foreign language.The paper offers an introduction to contrastive study English and Chinese syntax, and can be divi...
