Grammatical similarities and differences between English and Uzbek: a comparative study

Аннотация

This study examines the grammatical similarities and differences between English and Uzbek, two languages that belong to different linguistic families. English, a Germanic language within the Indo-European family, and Uzbek, a Turkic language from the Altaic family, differ significantly in sentence structure, verb formation, and noun inflection. While English relies on a fixed word order and auxiliary verbs, Uzbek uses agglutinative structures with various affixes. Despite these differences, both languages share some functional similarities, such as indicating tense and possession. Understanding these aspects can significantly support second language acquisition, especially for Uzbek-speaking learners of English.