The purpose of this investigation is to examine how well Indian ESL students are aware of various grammatical patterns in academic English. It seeks to theoretically investigate specific English syntactic structures and empirically study Indian ESL learners' performance in dealing with syntactic structures via a specialised test created for this purpose. There are four sections to this research. Scholarly and linguistic perspectives on general definitions of syntax and word order are provided in the first chapter. In the second section, we look at the most common syntactic patterns in current usage of Standard English. The third chapter discusses the main types of errors made on the test given to non-departmental postgraduate students in the College of Education, and provides results measuring their overall performance at the recognition and production levels. The major takeaways from this research are summed up in Chapter 4

Standard English , recognition and production ,Syntax, ESL