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Author, the III rd year studentRibac Alisa

Scientific Adviser:Chirdeachin Alexei

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INTRODUCTIONM y work is organized in three chapters:

Chapter I is about: General Characteristics of M

odal Verbs. Indicative M ood in English and Romanian

Chapter II is about: Quantitative Peculiarities of

Indicative M ood in English and RomanianChapter III is about: Peculiarities of Translations of

Indicative M ood in English and Romanian

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CHAPTER I

O n the 1st Chapter is about General Characteristics of M

odal Verbs in English Language and in RomanianLanguage, especially about Indicative M ood and

Indicative M ood tenses in English and Indicative

M ood and Indicative M ood tenses in Romanian.

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In English modal verbs do not inflect for person,number or tense.

Examples:y person: "I/you/she might consider it."y number: "I/We/She/They might consider it"y tense: "They might have considered/be

considering/have been considering it."

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The IndicativeM

ood or evidential mood ( IND) is usedfor factual statements and positive beliefs, for example,

"Paul is eating an apple." or "John eats apples.

Indicative M ood has three tenses:

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CHAPTER II

In this chapter I chose six literary texts, three of them in

English and three in Romanian.I made analysis of each sentence, I extracted every

construction with the Indicative M ood.

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Example in English :

(1)I don t think much of Stephen M ackaye any more,

though I used to swear by him. (2)I know that in those

days I loved him more than my own brother. (3)If ever

I meet Stephen M ackaye again, I shall not be

responsible for my actions.1. don t think present

used past2. known past

loved past3. meet future

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Example in Romanian:

(1)O iubire mare e mai curnd un proces

de autosugestie... (2)Trebuie timp si trebuie

complicitate pentru formarea ei. (3)De cele mai multe

ori te obisnuie ti greu, la nceput, sa-ti placa femeia

fara care mai trziu nu mai po i tr i.1. e present

2. Trebuie presenttrebuie present

3. obisnuie ti presentnu po i present

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CHAPTER III

This Chapter including two bases subchapter:

Translations of IndicativeM

ood Structures fromEnglish into Romanian.

This subchapter related us about Peculiarities of

Translations of Indicative M ood from English intoRomanian.

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Translations of Indicative M ood Structures from

Romanian into English

This subchapter related us about Peculiarities of

Translations of Indicative M ood from Romanian into

English.

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CONCLUSION

This work examines the main features and peculiarities

of Indicative M ood in English and Romanian. In

particular, the following aspects were presented:characteristics of Indicative M ood; main features

present in quantitative peculiarities; syntactical

features and their functional importance; lexical

peculiarities main vocabulary characteristics;

advertisements, ways of translating Indicative M ood.

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The indicative mood is the most common and is usedto express facts and opinions or to make inquiries.M ost of the statements you make or you read will be in

the indicative mood.