THE SYNTACTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING THE CONCEPT “GAME” (DATA OF ENGLISH)
The article deals with the conjunctions as if/as though functioning as markers of intellectual being presence. The conjunctions in question can introduce utterances describing situations that are not true.
Keywords: concept, game, counterfactual modality, assumption, the seeming
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Issue: 10, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: GERMANIC AND ROMAN LANGUAGES
Pages: 42 — 46
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