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Stylistics and Grammar. Morphological Stylistics considers only those morphological forms, which help to render expressiveness and thus can be stylistically marked; i.e. it studies stylistic potential of various grammatical categories.

E.g. You can be deader than the dead. /adjective/

Syntactic Stylistics analyses the expressive potential of various sentence patterns, of peculiar arrangements of sentence elements and of various interactions of adjacent sentences.

E.g. I have to beg you for money. Daily. /segmentation/
3. In accordance with the sphere of their usage English words can be divided into 3 main layers: literary, neutral and colloquial. The literary and colloquial layers contain a number of sub-groups. Each of these groups has an aspect (a property, a common feature) it shares with all the subgroups within the layer. The common property of the literary layer is its markedly bookish character, which makes the layer more or less stable. The common property of the colloquial layer of words is its lively spoken character, which makes it unstable, fleeting. The aspect of the neutral layer is its universal character, which means that words belonging to this layer are not restricted in use and can be employed in all styles and all spheres of human communication, which makes this layer the most stable of all.