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The current study aims not only to examine the students' level of performance and some pragmatic difficulties in the use of grammatical constructions namely modal, imperative and gerund as well as lexico-grammatical patterns with its related domains as routine formula, lexical bundles and collocations to express some speech acts. But also, to recognize the difficult domains which teachers’ face in applying grammatical constructions and lexico-grammatical patterns with speech acts contextually in the class. Seven hypotheses have been framed in this study. In order to verify these hypotheses and achieve the intended aims, a diagnostic test has been constructed and administrated to the selected sample of one hundred EFL 3rd year students in Education for Women College at Al-Iraqia University during the academic year 2021-2022. Besides to a close - ended questionnaire that has been constructed and applied for twenty university teachers who work at Al-Iraqia University and Al-Imam Al-Adham College University. The use of the grammatical constructions namely modal, imperative and gerund as well as lexico-grammatical patterns with its related domains as routine formula, lexical bundles and collocations represent a difficult area for EFL learners. Although the students use the same linguistic form that are used by the native speakers as examined in the data but the failure has been with the linguistic items within such forms. Such inappropriate use of the linguistic items, made them fail to match the acts produced by the native speakers.
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