Описание:The present course is intended for students who are going to obtain the Master degree in various specializations at the Faculty of Philology of MSU. Its aim and purpose are as follows: 1) to show and explain the multifunctional nature of the morphological system in modern English, i.e. the ability of grammatical morphological forms to fulfil various functions as systemic phenomena, and 2) to demonstrate the stylistic functioning of grammatical forms as a variety of multifunctioning. At the end of the course, the learners must be able to identify multifunctional units in various speech events including the stylistic functioning of grammatical morphological forms in various functional styles and be able to analyse them.