Means of expressing modality in Modern English

Modality – is a multifold phenomenon, and therefore in the linguistic literature we can find different thoughts concerning the essence of this phenomenon. Modality is a category of linguistic meaning having to do with the expression of possibility and necessity. There are different types of modality and the topicality of our term paper is caused by the necessity to improve knowledge about the term modality and its expression. The problem of modality as an object of interdisciplinary knowledge that is relevant to the modern science, has long been interested in the humanities scholars working in different fields research - logicians, linguists, psychologists, semioticians.

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………..……………3
CHAPTER 1. REVIEW OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL STYDING OF MADALITY IN MODER ENGLISH…………….……………………….5
Definitions of notion modality………………………………………….5
Category of modality …………………………………………………...8
Classifications of means realizing the category of modality…………...8
CHAPTER 2. THE ANALYSES OF USAGE MODALITY IN MODERN ENGLISH……………………………………………………………………..11
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………..15
LITERATURE USED…………………………………………………………16