Expressive and stylistic potential of grammatical categories of the verb

the article examines the expressive and stylistic potential of the verb, which consists in its specific grammatical categories of type, voice, mood and tense. The author examines how these categories are able to give expressiveness to a text of various functional and stylistic orientation: journalistic, scientific, artistic, clerical. It is noted that the expressive potential of this part of speech lies not so much in its semantic component as in the grammatical features associated with the expression of reality – unreality (mood), aspectuality (type), temporality (time), subjectivity and objectivity (pledge). Attention is also drawn to the fact that the verb plays a special role in the idiosyncrasy of such writers as Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. It is emphasized that the verb has an increased possibility of metaphorization.

verb, type, voice, mood, tense, expressiveness, style