Interlinguistic correspondence of multilevel means of expressing the meaning of modality in english and russian

Belonging to one group of world languages (Indo-European), English and Russian have analogues in the system of means of expressing modality - as a lexical-grammatical category expressing the relation of an action to reality, established by the speaker.ln English and Russian modality is expressed by both grammatical and lexical means. However, for the typological characteristics of language, grammatical means of expressing the meaning of modality are of great importance. Therefore, it is advisable to conduct an analysis of interlingual correspondence of different-level means of expressing modality in English and Russian, in terms of comparing the grammatical means of its expression. «Язык,как важнейшее и удивительно совершенное средство человечес-кого общения,средство обмена мыслями,может выполнять эти разнообразные и сложные функции потому,что он представляет собой весьма гибкую и в то же время отлично организованную систему» [ 1 ;5].