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SYNTACTICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 
The peculiarities of the structural design of sentences certainly have some 
emotional coloring and that’s why they are considered stylistically and emotionally 
colored. In order to understand the nature of the emotional charge of such syntactical 
structures we must be aware of the norm of syntactical usage.
By the norm of syntactical usage we mean the rules of the language according 
to which the word combinations, sentences, super phrasal units, paragraphs, and texts 
are constructed. Stylistic syntactical pattern may be considered as a variant of a 
general syntactical invariant of the language.
Syntax may be called the means by which strength is given to style, the means 
of joining separate parts into a whole. That’s why the structural syntactical aspect is 
regarded as a crucial issue in stylistic analysis.
It is well known that the English affirmative sentence is viewed as neutral 
because traditionally it has the regular word order: subject + predicate + object. Any 
change in a traditionally accepted pattern of the English sentence produces certain 
changes of the meaning. For example, a sudden change in the word order will add 
some information if compared with the same neutral sentence. E.g. To her and to one 
else was due the glory. The glory was due to herd to no one. 
The beginning and the end of the sentence are the most important parts of 
utterance. At the beginning of the sentence the full force of the stress is clearly left. 
At the end of the sentence there is always a pause, after which a new sentence begins. 
The authors use this peculiarity of syntax and place the most important ideas at the 
end of the sentence or at the beginning of the sentence. 
When we speak about syntax we must always remember about intonation.
The role of intonation becomes greater if the syntactical relations are weak.

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We distinguish the three groups of syntactical SDs. The first is – SDs 
established by the peculiarities of oral type of speech. The second group of SDs is 
characterized by the use of different connectives. The third group of syntactical SDs 
is based on the interrelation of structural meanings.