Of contrastive typology

Grammar may be practical and theoretical, descriptive and comparative. Comparative grammar, as the notion itself reveals it, represents a linguistic subject of grammar based on the method of comparison or contrasting.

All Indo-European languages fall into two types: synthetic and analytical. Synthetic languages are those of internal grammar. All changes take place within their words. Analytical languages are those of external grammar. All grammatical relations and meanings are expressed by means of auxiliaries or function words in them. English is considered to be an analytical language, Ukrainian, full of inflexion, is a synthetic one. However, we cannot speak of purely synthetic or analytical languages. For example, in Ukrainian we can observe some analytical devices (зроблю – буду робити), in English – synthetic devices (easy-easier-the easiest).