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Contents

Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3

Chapter One

Structural and Semantic Peculiarities of Requests in Modern English--------------------------5

Chapter Two

Indirect Ways of Expressing Requests in Modern English: Whimperatives ------------------14

Conclusion---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------20

Bibliography-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------22