this paper consists of three sections, Section one deals with the most important difficulties and characteristics of English subordinate clauses whereas section two tackles the difficulties faced by the Iraqi EFL students at the third year in the Department of English, College of languages, University of Baghdad in recognizing and producing the subordinate clauses submitting them to a test consisting of two questions (recognition and production). Finally, some pedagogical recommendation of the findings can be found in section four.

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الحمد لله رب العالمين و الصلاة و السلام على اشرف المرسلين الرسول الصادق الأمين و على اله أئمة الهدى أتمّ التسليم .

و بعد :

دأب شعراء الأندلس على الإجادة والإبداع في شعرهم لإثبات التفوق الأدبي الذي لا يتم إلأ إذا أمتلك الشاعر تلك المقدرة الأدبية والفنية العالية التي تؤهله لصياغة عباراته بأسلوب متميز له القدرة على إفحام الطرف ال

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تهدف الدراسة إلى إبراز دور المدرسة الجغرافية الأمريکية في تطور نظم المعلومات الجغرافية،إذ تعد من أکثر البلدان التي شهدت تطوراً سريعاً جديرة بالدراسة في هذا المجال، کما معروف أن نظم المعلومات الجغرافية مجموعة إجراءات تتمثل في جمع وتحليل البيانات الرقمية فضلا عن تحليل الخرائط والصور الجوية وعرضها على هيئة معلومات للإفادة منها في صنع القرار، لذلک جاءت الدراسة لتبين البذور الأولى لنظم المعلومات الجغرافية ومر

Comparison is the most common and effective technique for human thinking: the human mind always judges something new based on its comparison with similar things that are already known. Therefore, literary comparisons are always clear and convincing. In our daily lives, we are constantly forced to compare different things in terms of quantity, quality, or other aspects. It is known that comparisons are used in literature in order for speech to be clear and effective, but when these comparisons are used in everyday speech, it is in order to convey the meaning directly and quickly, because many of these expressions used daily are comparisons. In our research, we discussed this comparison as a means of metaphor and expression in Russia

The present study aims at investigating the effect of “FLOW” strategy is a creative thinking strategy on developing EFL learners' writing achievements. The sample of the study was ninety Iraqi college students. Their performance was assessed on the pre and post achievement test in both experimental group 45 taught by “FLOW” strategy and control 45 taught traditionally. A test was designed and exposed to jury of experts for ascertaining its validity. The reliability coefficient of the test was 0.89 by using Cronbach Alpha Formula. The collected testing papers were analyzed by using T-test. It is found that there are significant differences between the two groups. This indicates that teaching writing a composition by using