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темпоральность (настоящее, прошедшее, будущее время), привязка
содержания к конкретному времени;
модальность реальности, предположительности (сослагательное
наклонение, глагольные конструкции с модальным значением, модальные
слова):
1) Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall.
2) …the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace
3) I wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of
government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they're doing
again.
на уровне предложения:
личное подлежащее, малое разнообразие лица подлежащего, активный
залог при оформлении сказуемого, семантически полноценные глаголы;
преимущественно прямой порядок слов:
сложная конструкция предложения с участием придаточных:
1) In these four decades, as I have said, you Berliners have built a great city.
2) Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation,
the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will
become obsolete.
3) ) And because we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility,
not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time,
an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.
4) While we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain
the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might occur.
использование побудительных предложений:
1) Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear
down this wall!
2) Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together.