Stylistic potential of tense-aspect verbal forms in modern English
To adhere to the main point from «A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language» it is essential to exhibit some facts from chapter «Perfective and progressive ASPECT.». The term «aspect» refers to a grammatical category which reflects the way in which the verb action is regarded and experienced with respect to t i m e. The two aspect constructions of English: perfective and the progressive…
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Supply and demand
Imagine that Cathy and Fred are bartering over the price. Fred offers $ 25 dollars for a sack of potatoes. Cathy is just about ready to agree when Emily offers to sell a sack of potatoes for $ 24 dollars. Fred is not willing to sell at $ 24 dollars, so he drops out. At this point, Dan can offer to sell for $ 12. Emily won’t sell for that amount so it looks like the deal might go through. At this…
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Switzerland tourism
Hardworking swisses thriftily have equipped the small country. They have penetrated mountains by tunnels and have constructed bridges through gorges, have built for rise on tops the gear railway, cable cars and cable lifts. They are proud of a level of the traditional branches of a facilities (an economy) — an agriculture (we shall recollect the Swiss cheeses or chocolate), manufacture…
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Sydney burning
Whatever the truth of this, the police certainly wanted more evidence, and McAlister set out to provide it. He produced the story of the drawing of lots, which introduced the fictitious character of Mahony. The police said that he gave them this story on September 7, but once again there was no independent documentary evidence for this — it was missing. However, the police provided confirmatory…
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Synchronization and effect of Zommerfelda as typical resonant samples
Where is the mass of a base with one degree of freedom, characterized by the linear displacement, is the elasticity coefficient of the base, is the damping coefficient, stands for the mass of an eccentric, denotes the radius of inertia of this eccentric, is the moment of inertia of the rotor in the absence of imbalance, is the driving moment, describes the torque resistance of the rotor. The…
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Synonyms an Their Translation
Since the exact meaning of each synonym is delimited by its interrelatedness with the other elements of the same group, comparison plays an important part in synonymic research. It has already been tentatively examined in the opening paragraph of this chapter; now we offer a slightly different angle of the same problem. The interchangeability and possible neutralization are tested by means…
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Syntagmatic and paradigmatic peculiarities of adverbs in English
There has been a marked discrepancy of opinion concerning deadjectival adverbs in terms of two mutually exclusive types of morphological derivation — inflection and word-formation. Two views have been put forward, according to which adverbs are treated as either the inflectional paradigmatic form of a parent adjective or its derivative. The former view can be refuted if we proceed from the notion…
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System of education of Great Britain
Oldest universities — Oxford (is open in 12 century) and Cambridge (13 centuries). The Scottish universities St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh were open at 15−16 centuries. The Oxford and Cambridge universities are known everything, even by (with) the people which are not going to study abroad. Will say by exaggeration nevertheless, that they — «best». Certainly, any high school in the…
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Syntax and semantics of verbals in English
The present qualification work consists of four parts: introduction, the main part, conclusion and bibliography. It also includes the appendix where some interesting Internet materials, tables, schemes were gathered. Within the introduction part, which includes two items we gave the brief description of my qualification work (the first item) and gave general notion of the term «Verbals». The main…
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Territorial varieties of English pronunciation
The third type of educated American speech is General American (GA), also known as Northern American or Western American spoken in the central Atlantic States: New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin and others. GA pronunciation is known to be the pronunciation standard of the USA. There are some reasons for it. GA is the form of speech used by the radio and television. It is mostly used in scientific…
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Terrorism in Europe
Four overlapping segments exist within Northern Ireland. The majority of the unionist community are generally called Unionists and commit to supporting political parties like the Ulster Unionist Party (known for part of the 1970s and 1980s as the Official Unionist Party) or the more militant protestant Democratic Unionist Party. The larger segment of the nationalist catholic community are…
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Terrorism in Europe
France too has been exposed to a variety of threats. The Organisation Armee Secrete, or Secret Army Organisation (OAS), comprised of French nationals, army personnel, and foreign legion members was a group dedicated to keeping Algeria as a French colony. On 9 September 1961, the group attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle in France. The attack launched by that group…
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Text analysis in translation
In order to ascertain the dimension of intention we have to ask what function the sender intends the text to fulfill, and what effect on the receiver s/he wants to achieve by transmitting the text. It may seem difficult to distinguish the concept of intention from that of function and effect. Biihler (1984), for example, equates «author's intention» with «purpose and effect». The three concepts…
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The American History in Film Project, «The Help»
First of all, she is not striving for having a rich husband and giving birth to children. She wants to be a professional journalist or writer. But nobody understands her ambitions — moreover, nobody even pays attention to them. For example, when she shared the news of her getting a job with her mother, Hilly and her friends, nobody showed any interest in it and all of them unanimously started…
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The analysis of the novel «A room with a view»
Let’s consider the next examples. You seem to come like my own anger, my own malice, my own — whatever it is — I don’t know what it is. Кажется, вы появляетесь подобно моей злости, моей ненависти, моей. ещё Бог знает чего — я не знаю, что это. What has my life been? Fag and grind, fag and grind, turn the wheel, turn the wheel! Чем была моя жизнь? Работа и работа, работа и работа, крути колесо…
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The Architecture of Ancient Rome
Antonine Wall. The Antonine Wall is a sixty kilometer wall north of Hadrian’s Wall built by the Romans in Britian to keep the Picts at bay during the reign of Antoninus Pius (A.D. 142−155). Hadrian died in July 138. Reversing his predecessor’s policy of solidification instead of expansion, Antoninus Pius ordered a northward advance and built a new wall called the Antonine Wall. It was completed…
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The art of conversation
A good conversationalist can stand on his ground and easily persuade people and be able to prove that his point of view or a way to solve a problem is the best one and the most relevant to the situation given. Argument — is a synonym of discussion, debate, or even disagreement. It is a conversation in the course of which people try to prove that it is their point of view which is correct…
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The basic features of translation informal lexicon
The basic sources which were used for a spelling of our work, were lexicographic editions (sensible and bilingual dictionaries, dictionaries of terms) and materials from the Internet. We used also works of above-stated linguists Richard of A.L. Spersa «the Dictionary American slang», Stirling Johnson «English as a Second F*cking Language», Stefan Marder" Additional Russian-english the…
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The basic methods of psychological research
During the conversation, the researcher receives no objective facts, and thoughts of a man who tries to meet expectations. Diagnostic methods — tests Diagnosis — one of the important problems of the use of psychological knowledge in various fields to study the man best use of its capabilities. Psychodiagnostic methods are used almost everywhere. Without them it is impossible to monitor the effect…
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The Balmain ironworkers' strike of 1945
Whеn wаr brokе out іn Еuropе іn 1939 аnd Аustrаlіа's Prіmе Mіnіstеr, R. G. Mеnzіеs, аnnouncеd thе consеquеnt іnvolvеmеnt of thе Аustrаlіаn pеoplе by thе sіdе of thе Brіtіsh, spokеsmеn of thе trаdе unіons plеdgеd thе support of thе lаbour movеmеnt for thе govеrnmеnt’s wаr еffort. Sіncе thеrе wаs, а lаrgе rеsеrvoіr of unеmployеd thе mаjor concеrn of thе govеrnmеnt іn rеgаrd to lаbour wаs not…
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The Article
In ME we see a further development in this field: a second article appears here from the OE numeral an. This development must be interpreted as a split in the category of determination, its marked member now splits into two varieties: the definite represented by the article the (from OE se, with substitution of initial sby thinfluenced by other case forms, which were derived from the root p-in OE…
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The biography and Charles Dickens's creativity
On Christmas Eve of 1812, Pip, a boy aged 7, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting his mother and father’s and younger brothers' graves. The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him and a file to grind away his leg shackles. He threatens Pip not to tell anyone and do as he says or his friend will cut out Pip’s heart and liver. Pip returns home, where he lives…
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The biography Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez became known not only as a film actress: in 1999 the former dancer has given due propensities to music, having let out a priest — album of Latin American songs On the 6 which has gone away on the world in circulation in eight millions. And her first single «If you had my love «was present at hits — sheets the USA within five weeks. The following single — «Waiting for tonight…
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The Borrowed Words Process Development in English
Uzbek language also developed under the influence of Persian, Arabic and later Russian languages. Persian language spread in our territory in 500−300BC, since that time peoples of Central Asia have been in close contact with Iran, the birthplace of Persian language. Till 15th century it was «Fashion» and desirable to write poems and prosaic works in Persian, though old Turkic language was also…
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The British Character and English Humour
Interpersonal Contacts are generally rather cool and formal. Handshakes are not so warm. British punctuality should connect with this formality but also with a kind of respect and consideration for other people that helps avoid embarrassing confrontations. Humour, however, may cover other feelings. I agree here with Sigmund Freud who said humour helps us to express things in a round about way…
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The British language teaching
Language activities which involve children in guessing what phrase or word someone has thought of are very good examples of this phenomenon in action. As far as the children are concerned, they are not trying to learn phrases: they are concentrating on trying to guess right. However, by the time they have finished the repeated guessing, they will have confirmed words and structures they only half…
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The business cycles as a form of economic development
The economy has the ability to develop cyclically: it has its own crises, recoveries, «booms». People always strive to reach the peak, the «boom» of their welfare; the government — to the peak of economic development of the state. But the economy can’t stay at the peak of its development forever, it’s always followed by the recession, crisis. Under these two words we all understand something bad…
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The category of Mood
Though the system of the 'imperative' mood does not contain 'person' opposemes, it cannot be said that there is no meaning of 'person' in the imperative mood grammemes. On the contrary, all of them are united by the meaning of 'second person' because it is always to his interlocutor (the second person) that the speaker addresses his order or request expressed with the help of — imperative mood…
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The collection of dialogues on English language for development of oral speech of senior pupils
I am glad you to have a shift in your opinion, calling «difficult» children — unhappy. You may absorb much information about youth problems from magazines and newspapers, which confirm the fact, that working with children 1st of all you are to love them in spite of the fact they are children of awful habits. Well, I understood that to have success in future work with children. I love a way with…
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The Comparative Analysis of the Functioning of Interjections in the English and Spanish Languages
From the similar analysis of the derived interjections in the Sp sample we may see that theyare mostly of a verbal origin, in the sense that they developed from different verbs, mostly with the meaning of movement. For example, Vaya!, Vamos and Quй va! developed from the forms of the verb «ir"(to go) and the interjections «Venga!» and «Anda» developed from the verbs «venir» and «andar» (to come…
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