The use of the Present The use of the Present Continuous,the Future Continuous and to be going to -structure as means of expressing futurity in British newspapers

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  Introduction 3
  Chapter 1. Futurity and its expression in the English language 6
  1.1. Verb as a part of speech in modern English language 6
  1.1.1. Verb categories 6
  1.1.2. The category of tense and aspect 8
  1.2. Future tense and its peculiarities in English 13
  1.3. Ways of expressing futurity in English: the notion of aspect 20
  Chapter 2. Futurity expression in British popular and quality newspapers 26
  2.1. Specifics of newspaper style in Great Britain 26
  2.1.1. Peculiarities of quality and popular newspapers in Great Britain 27
  2.1.2. Futurity in newspaper style 33
  2.2. Present Continuous, Future Continuous and to be going to–structures in British quality press 39
  2.3. Present Continuous, Future Continuous and to be going to–structures in British popular press 41
  2.4. Comparative analysis of futurity expression in the British popular and quality newspapers 44
  Conclusion 48
  Bibliography 50
  Appendix 1 54
  Appendix 2 57
  
  
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  Introduction
  
  The present research is directed to the analysis of the use of the Present Continuous, the Future Continuous and to be going to-structures as means of expressing futurity in British popular and quality newspapers. In modern linguistics the scientists often direct their attention to the problem of futurity expression. The reason of it is the fact the Future tense is one of the most disputable questions in English grammar. Moreover, means of its expressions can be different on grammatical level as well as on other language levels. The most interesting means of futurity expression in the modern English language are the tense forms of the Future Continuous and the Present Continuous and to be going to-structure. The topicality of the present research consists in the insufficient investigation of these forms of futurity expression in the modern English language and the absence of comparative analyses of futurity expression in British popular and quality newspapers.
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  Chapter 1. Futurity and its expression in the English language
  1.1. Verb as a part of speech in modern English language
  1.1.1. Verb categories
  
  In modern English Grammar a verb is a definite part of speech which main function is to describe and denote some action. Thus, a verb is defined as “a part of speech which expresses the grammatical meaning of an action, i.e. the dynamic features talking place in time” [5, p. 46-47].
  Verb operates several grammatical categories. According to M.Ya. Blokh, we should distinguish six verbal categories:
  1) category of tense;
  2) category of aspect;
  3) category of voice;
  4) category of mood;
  5) category of person;
  6) category of number [1, p. 166].
  Nevertheless, not every category of English verb is actively used in modern English language. Thus, the categories of tense, aspect, voice and mood are strict developed in modern language, but the categories of person and number are residual, declining, as I.P. Ivanova says [5, p. 50]. It is a very disputable question, if we can consider them to be verb categories at all. The reason for disputes is the fact that the categories of person and number are used restricted. Thus, in past Indefinite tense these categories are not used, except of the verb “to be”.
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