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Means of Expressing Modality in Modern English
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«МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ГУМАНИТАРНО-ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ»

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по дисциплине: Лексикология

на тему: «Means of expressing modality in Modern English»
«Способы выражения модальности в современном английском языке»

Выполнил: студент _2_курса факультета иностранных языков очной формы обучения (очной, очно-заочной, заочной)
_Разживин Павел Сергеевич___
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Научный руководитель:
__ст.п. Устиновская А.А._
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«____»_________________ 200_г.

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Москва, 2014

Table of content

Introduction ………………………………………………………………………..3
Chapter I. Review of Theoretical and Practical Studying of Modality in Modern English ……………………………………………………………………………..6
1.1. The Notion of Modality…………………………………….………………….6
1.2 The Category of Modality .……………………………………………………8
1.3 Modal Words …………………………………………………………………11
1.4 Lexical Composition and Classification of Modal Words……………………………………………………………………………..12
1.5 Modal Words as Means of Expressing the Truth …………………….………12
1.6 Syntactic Functions of Modal Words ……..………………………………….16
1.7 Comparison of Modal Words as Adverbs...……………………………..……17
Chapter II. General Characteristics of Modal Verbs ..……………………………19
2.1. The Verb Must …………...…………………………………………………..20
2.2. The Verb May-Might …………..…………………………………………….22
2.3. Verbs Should and Ought to …………...……………………………………...24
2.4. The Verb Will – Would …………...………………………………………….26
2.5. The Verb Can – Could ……..………………………………………………..27
2.6 The Verb Need ………………………………………………………………..29
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………..30
List of References ………………………………………………………………...31

Introduction
Lexicology is the part of linguistics which studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols their meaning, the relationship of their meaning to epistemology in general, and the rules of their composition from smaller elements (morphemes such as the



References: 1 Barkhudarov L.S., Shteling D. A. “English grammar”. 2003 2 3 . Zhigadlo V. N., Ivanov I.P., Iofik L. L. “Modern English”. 2004 4 10 . Rayevskaya N. N. “Modern English Grammar”. 2009. 11 . I.P. Ivanova, V. V. Burlakov, G.G. Pocheptsov “Theoretical grammar of modern English”. 2010 12

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