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The Peculiarities of the Functioning of the Model Inf-Adv-o Sentences in Modern Business Communication

The article analyzes some peculiarities of how sentences of the model Inf-Adv-o function in modern business communication. Such sentences usually express teleological or normative evaluations of various social or mental actions. This is due to the subject-matter of business communication. The reverse order of the main members of the sentence (inversion) is more common in the spoken form of business communication.

Basic Units of Formal Syntax

The paper offers a new typology of English basic syntactic units that take part in realizing communicative acts and traces its applicability to a study of Russian basic syntactic units.