This book is designed for college students of faculties of the English
language, or languages and linguistics, as well as for serious amateurs
of English language study. The aim of the book is to lead the students
to a scientific understanding of new assumptions and views of language
as a system.

The central interest in functional semantic correlation of grammatical
units has given shape to the whole book. In a description of language
structure we have to account for the form, the substance and the
relationship between the form and the situation. Linguistic activity
participates in situations alongside with man's other activities.
Grammatical categories are viewed as a complicated unity of form and
grammatical content. Due attention has been drawn to contextual level
of analysis, to denotative and connotative meanings of grammatical
forms, their transpositions and functional re-evaluation in different
contexts, linguistic or situational.

Linguistic studies of recent years contain a vast amount of important
observations based on acute observations valid for further progressive
development of different aspects of the science of language. The
conception of the general form of grammars has steadily developed.
What becomes increasingly useful for insight into the structure and
functioning of language is orientation towards involving lexis in
studying grammar.