Grammatical peculiarities:

1. Complex sentences with a developed system of clauses.

2. Verbal constructions.

3. Syntactical complexes.

4. Attributive noun groups.

e.g., classic cold-war-style telephone diplomacy; government anti -terror policies; a new patented smoking cessation program; an exclusive worldwide assistance network; the normally self-assured Pentagon chief; the national income and expenditure figures.

5. Specific word order.

e.g. The biggest blackout( временное отсутствие электрического освещения (обычно вследствие аварии) in US history crippled major metropolitan areas in the Northeast and Midwest on Thursday by shutting down trains, airports, traffic and cooling systems. (US Today, Aug.

The Headline. The main function is to inform the reader briefly, to reveal the reporter’s attitude to the facts reported. It may contain elements of appraisal.

Syntactical patterns:

1. Full declarative sentences. California ballot is a field of dreamers.

2. Interrogative sentences. What’s next for Mr. Vick?

3. Nominative sentences. Blackout misery. Companies for Sale. Ageism Factor.

4. Elliptical sentences. 50 MILLION AFFECTED IN Northeast and beyond as power grid fails.

5. Sentences with articles omitted. British soldier dies in ambulance bombing. Standard Investor Seeking to Sell Stake.

6. Phrases with verbals. Married – with cameras. Keeping prices down. To get USA aid.

7. Questions in the form of statements. Safe Sin? The more, the better?

8. Complex sentences. US Newspaperman Declares He Helped Bomb Havana.

9. Headlines including direct speech. Travel havoc: “We are not getting out today”.

Advertisements and Announcements. The function of advertisements and announcements is to inform the reader. There are two types of them: classified and non-classified.

In Classified advertisements and announcemewnts various kinds of information are arranged according to subject-matter into sections, each bearing an appropriate name:: Births, Marriages, Deaths, In Memorial, Business Offers, Personal, Farm, Aviary. “Trained Nurse with child 2 years seeks post London preferred – Write Box C, 658, The Times, EC (маленькое объявление в газете о купле-продаже, сдаче внаём и т. п).

In Non-classified ads and announcements the variety of language form and subject matter is so great that hardly any essential features common to all may be pointed out. The reader’s attention is attracted by every possible means: typographical, graphical, stylistic. No brevity of language means is observed. The advertiser may buy as much space as he chooses.

Editorials are intermediate phenomenon bearing the stamp of both the newspaper style and the publicistic style. Its function is to influence the reader by giving an interpretation of certain facts. Editorials comment on the political and other events of the day. Their purpose is to give the editor’s opinion and interpretation of news published and suggest to the reader it is the correct one. Editorials appeal npt only to the reader’s mind but to his feelings as well.

The Scientific Prose Style, its Substyles and their Peculiarities

a) Exact sciences

b) Humanitarian sciences;

c) Popular- science prose;

The language of science is governed by the aim of the functional style of scientific prose, which is to prove a hypothesis, to create new concepts, to disclose the internal laws of existence, development, relations between phenomena, etc.

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The Scientific Prose Style is characterized by:

1. Rigour and precision; cтрогость,точность)

2. Logical sequence of utterances; (последовательность)

3. Impersonality;(безличность)

4. Quotations, references, footnotes

5. Sentence patterns:

Postulatory

argumentative