Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 28 стр.

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compact gist of an article Function
Features
concise syntax presented by different kinds of sentences:
• full declarative sentences ("Allies Now Look to London"),
• interrogative sentences ("Do You Love War?"),
• rhetoric questions ("The Worse the Better?"),
• nominative sentences ("Gloomy Sunday"),
• elliptical sentences:
(a) with an auxiliary verb omitted ("Initial Report Not Ex-
pected Until June")
(b) with the subject omitted ("Stole Luxury Cars by Photos")
(c) with the subject and part of the predicate omitted ("Still in
Danger")
• complex sentences ("Senate Panel Hears Board of Military
Experts Who Favoured Losing Bidder")
specific use of grammar:
• simple verb forms used ("Queen Opens Hospital Today")
• sentences with articles omitted ("Royal Family Quits")
• phrases with verbals:
(a) infinitive standing for "going to happen" ("President to
Visit Russia")
(b) participial and gerundial constructions expressing present
time ("Keeping Prices Down", "Speaking Parts")
• use of direct speech ("What Oils the Wheels of Industry?"
Asks James Lowery-Olearch of the Shell-Mex and B.P. Group)
• emotive syntax and vocabulary suggestive of approval or
disapproval
• allusive use of set expressions and sayings;
• their deliberate breaking-up ("Cakes and Bitter Beer")
• deformation of special terms ("Conspirator-in-Chief")
• use of stylistic devices producing a strong emotional effect
("And What About Watt")
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PRACTICE
1. Read the headlines taken from American and British
newspapers and identify the means employed to make them striking.
£2M Gems Stolen
HEART SWAP BOY BETTER
GOVERNMENT TO SLASH HEALTH EXPENDITURE
WOMAN QUITS AFTER JOB ORDEAL
Why jeopardize the innocent?
Other ways exist to fight crime
Al l t h e W o r l d ’s i n
Lo v e W i t h
Sh ak espear e
Crowd Violence
Mars C up Final
The Li fe of Edgar Al l an Poe, a H al l of Mi r r or
s
£3M DRUGS
SEIZED
AT AIRPORT 
                                                                                                       PRACTICE
Function
                             Features
                             concise syntax presented by different kinds of sentences:                1. Read the headlines taken from American and British
                             • full declarative sentences ("Allies Now Look to London"),         newspapers and identify the means employed to make them striking.
                             • interrogative sentences ("Do You Love War?"),
                             • rhetoric questions ("The Worse the Better?"),
                                                                                                          GOVERNMENT TO SLASH HEALTH EXPENDITURE
                             • nominative sentences ("Gloomy Sunday"),
                             • elliptical sentences:
                                                                                                                                          H EA RT SW A P BO Y BETTER
                             (a) with an auxiliary verb omitted ("Initial Report Not Ex-
                             pected Until June")
                             (b) with the subject omitted ("Stole Luxury Cars by Photos")            £2M Gems Stolen
                             (c) with the subject and part of the predicate omitted ("Still in
                             Danger")
compact gist of an article




                             • complex sentences ("Senate Panel Hears Board of Military
                             Experts Who Favoured Losing Bidder")
                                                                                                       Al l t h e W o r l d ’s i n               £3M DRUGS
                             specific use of grammar:                                                                                            SEIZED
                                                                                                             Lo v e W i t h
                             • simple verb forms used ("Queen Opens Hospital Today")                                                             AT AIRPORT
                                                                                                            Sh a k espea r e
                             • sentences with articles omitted ("Royal Family Quits")
                             • phrases with verbals:
                             (a) infinitive standing for "going to happen" ("President to
                             Visit Russia")                                                                               WOMAN QUITS AFTER JOB ORDEAL
                             (b) participial and gerundial constructions expressing present                       Cro w d Vio le nce
                                                                                                                  Mars C up Final
                             time ("Keeping Prices Down", "Speaking Parts")
                             • use of direct speech ("What Oils the Wheels of Industry?"            Why je o p ardiz e the inno c e nt ?
                             Asks James Lowery-Olearch of the Shell-Mex and B.P. Group)             O t he r w ays e xist t o fight c rim e
                             • emotive syntax and vocabulary suggestive of approval or
                             disapproval
                             • allusive use of set expressions and sayings;
                             • their deliberate breaking-up ("Cakes and Bitter Beer")
                             • deformation of special terms ("Conspirator-in-Chief")
                             • use of stylistic devices producing a strong emotional effect                  TheLifeof Edgar Allan Poe, a Hall of Mirrors
                             ("And What About Watt")



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