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308 329 Ways And Means Of Expressing Modality In English And Ukrainian
Modality as an extralingual category expressing the relation of content to reality has in English and Ukrainian common means of realization. These include a) phonological means (stress and intonation) b) lexico-grammatical means (modal verbs) c) lexical means (modal words and modal expressions) conveying subjective modality d) grammatical means (mood forms of the verb) conveying grammatical modality. I do really wish it hadnt been you. (Greene) Can I come up and see your pictures (Hemingway) Having it all, one cant leave a woman without a bob. (Maugham) 310 d) When the modal verb can expresses irrefutability of action or assuredness of statement, it may be conveyed in Ukrainian, where this kind of modal meaning is usually expressed implicitly, through a definite word-order and sentence stress (prosodic means) Exercise II. Identify the modal meaning of can/could, to be able to (physical ability, mental ability, etc.) and translate the 312 sentences into Ukrainian. 1. Anyone can be a fisherman in May. (Hemingway) 2. Can you draw 3. I could wash the floors. (Dreiser) 4. Suleman-ibn-Daoud could hardly speak for laughing. (Kipling) 5. You have done everytning you could for me. (Hemingway) 6. ... but I cant make head and tail of it. (Maugham) 7. She couldnt bear the sight of him. (Christie) 8. I was able to do the commissioner a favour once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year. (Fitzgerald) 9. Dorian seemed to be able to exercise whenever he wished. (Wilde) 10. Still there are many individuals who have never been able to work. (D.K.Stevenson) 11. A man can do no more than he can. 12. No man can serve two masters. (Proverb) 13. Cant I go with you, Holden Cant I (Salinger) 14. It could scarcely be said that he did this in a fatherly spirit. (Dreiser) 15. And there followed, of course, squeals and gaffaws of delight - so loud that they could be heard for half a mile. (Dreiser) 16. As for Mrs.Gerhardt, one could better imagine than describe her feeling.
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