Category of voice in modern english

CATEGORY OF VOICE IN MODERN ENGLISH
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………...3
CHAPTER 1. THE CATEGORY OF VOICE………………………………….5

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   Voice in English and Armenian………………………………………………..8
   

1.2 The problems of Voice………………………………………………………..10
CHAPTER 2. THE CATEGORY OF MOOD………………………………...16
2.1 Mood in English and Armenian………………………………………………17
2.2 The oblique moods……………………………………………………………22
2.3 The conditional mood…………………………………………………………30
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………..33
BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………….35


Introduction
The theme of my term paper sounds as following: «Verb. The Categories of Voice Mood in English and Armenian». Before beginning of investigation in our theme, I would like to say some words dealt with the theme of my course paper. The verb is characterized by a number of categories: tense, aspect, voice, mood and correlation. In this work we are going to examine the categories of voice and mood in English and Armenian.
Grammatically the verb is the most complex part of speech. First of all it performs the central role in realizing predication – connection between situation in the utterance and reality.
The following presentation of the categorial system of the English verb is based on oppositional criteria worked out in the course of grammatical studies of language by Russian and foreign scholars.
The voice of the English verb is expressed by the opposition of the passive form of the verb to the active form of the verb. The passive form as the strong member of the opposition expresses reception of the action by the subject of the syntactic construction (i.e. the «passive» subject, denoting the object of the action); the active form as the weak member of the opposition leaves this meaning unspecified, i.e. it expresses «non-passivity».
The category of mood expresses the character of connection between the process denoted by the verb and the actual reality, either presenting the process as a fact that really happened, happens or will happen, or treating it as an imaginary phenomenon, i.e. the subject of a hypothesis, speculation, desire. What is, though, the formal sign of this categorial opposition? What kind of morphological change makes up the material basis of the functional semantics of the oppositional contrast of forms? The answer to this question, evidently, can be obtained as a result of an observation of the relevant language data in the light of the two correlated presentations of the category, namely, a formal presentation and a functional presentation.
Standing on such ground, I would like to point out tasks and aims of my work

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   The first task of my work is to give definition to term «voice» and «mood».
   
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   The second task is to show the use and formation of voice in English and Armenian.
   
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   The third task is to give the classification of moods in English and Armenian.
   
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   The last task of my work is to characterize each mood from grammatical point of view.
   

In our opinion the practical significance of our work is hard to be overvalued. This work reflects modern trends in linguistics and we hope it would serve as a good manual for those who wants to master modern English language.
After having proved the actuality of our work, I would like to describe the composition of it:
My work consists of four parts: introduction, the main part, conclusion and bibliography. Within the introduction part we gave the brief description of our course paper. The main part of the work includes several items. There we discussed such problems as the voice in English and Armenian, their formation and use, the number of moods in English and Armenian, their classification, and etc. In the conclusion to our work we tried to draw some results from the scientific investigations made within the present course paper. In bibliography part we mentioned some sources which were used while compiling the present work. It includes linguistic books and articles dealing with the theme, a number of used dictionaries and encyclopedias and also some internet sources.
Our task in the objective study of language, as well as in language teaching, is to accurately register these phenomena, to explain their mechanism and systemic implications, to show the relevant tendencies of usage in terms of varying syntactic environments, topical contexts, stylistic preferences.