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Actual Division: Its Distinctive Features In Scientific Russian And English Speech

Table 3: Similarities and differences of syntactic features of a sentence or utterance in Russian and English

Common features Differences
Word order performs a grammar and syntactic function. Russian English
The scope of this function is not the same in both languages. The grammar and syntactic functions of the word order in English are much wider than in Russian.
Type of morphological structure
Inflectional (synthetic) Anglicism (analytical)
Free word order Fixed word order
Ability to rearrange words Free word orderAny word can be moved to the end, beginning or middle of the sentence. As a rule, rearranging words is not possible, or it is associated with semantic shifts. It usually entails certain structural modifications of the entire sentence.
The concordance of words in a sentence Words in a sentence agree by means of endings. Categorial grammatical meanings in English are formed, as a rule, beyond the morphological structure of a word (Sarymbetova, 2019).
It is possible that both logical-grammatical subject and logical-grammatical predicate can take any position in a sentence or statement (Bekchaev, 2019). There is no article, or the article is replaced by demonstrative pronouns: such, this, that, etc., which can be used before a logical-grammatical subject. There is an article that can also serve as an indicator of a logical-grammatical subject and a logical-grammatical predicate (Bekchaev, 2019).
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