In the introduction part, the paper points out that many students feel that long difficult sentences in English are really very difficult and bring great difficulties in understanding, but the long difficult sentences in English are ubiquitous, which is determined by the language characteristics of English itself. So in the methodology part, this paper first analyzes the structural features of English sentences which are demonstrated mainly in two aspects and introduces the English sentence structure analysis method which explores the different sentence structure types and uses a case study to demonstrate the detailed usage of this method. Then in the discussion part, the paper discusses the role of sentence structure analysis in English listening, reading comprehension, cloze test, translation, oral expression and writing before it finally works out the conclusion that the analysis of English sentence structure plays an universal role in English learning, and students of English major should master this method through certain practice like systematically mastering grammar, doing more analysis in reading and practicing and reading aloud so as to fundamentally improve their English levels.
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Yu, X. (2021). A Study on the Role of Sentence Structure Analysis in English Learning. Open Access Library Journal, 8, e7859. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1107859.
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