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Conversation - the verbal communication between people is indispensable in daily life. However, interlocutors cannot always understand all the utterances during their conversations because of some trouble sources causing communication breakdown. Repairing the trouble sources is neccessary for the interlocutors to get an effective conversation. With the aim of discovering the main grammatical structures and their parts of speech of other-repair in English, data for the investigation is 262 extracts of 23 English film conversations containing other-repair. The result shows that hearers (H) in English film conversations (EFCs) repaired 05 syntactic components such as noun, verb, adjective, clause, preposition.