Nataliia Dutkevych

Exercise 1. Define the functional style according to its characteristic

features and functions:

Dear Sir/Madam

I have recently read The Subversive Stitch written by Rozsika Parker and found it
very impressive. I would also be interested in reading Parker’s book Old
Mistresses.

However, I could not find the book anywhere in Finland. I am presently studying
Textile Design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. This book would
be very useful for my study project in textile history. Would it be possible to
receive a copy of the book (ISNB 0-7043-3883-1)? If not, could you please tell me
how I could go about getting a copy for my project?

Thank you for your help and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Max Tannen

http://tmnlib.ru:82/upload/books/PPS/Ponomareva_Ponomareva_276_276(1)_UP_
2012.pdf

Exercise 2. Define the functional style according to its characteristic

features and functions:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do

the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that
goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because
that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to
postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
https://www.englishtrackers.com/english-blog/10-famous-speeches-in-english-and-
what-you-can-learn-from-them/

Exercise 3. Define the functional style according to its characteristic

features and functions:

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people
living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were
suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the
movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it
wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/70702-this-planet-has---or-rather-had---a-
problem

Exercise 4. Define the functional style according to its characteristic

features and functions:

A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the
form of frozen precipitation. The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals
in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an
adequate supply of moisture present. At the core of every ice crystal is a minuscule
nucleus, a solid particle of matter around which moisture condenses and freezes.
Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals
cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than
that of water. This enables the ice crystals to rob the liquid droplets of their
moisture and grow continuously. The process can be very rapid, quickly creating
sizable ice crystals, some of which adhere to each other to create a cluster of ice
crystals or a snowflake. Simple flakes possess a variety of beautiful forms, usually
hexagonal, though the symmetrical shapes reproduced in most microscope
photography of snowflakes are not usually found in actual snowfalls. Typically,
snowflakes in actual snowfall consists of broken fragments and clusters of
adhering ice crystals.

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=12971

Exercise 5. Define the functional style according to its characteristic

features and functions:

Michael Armstrong, Who Published a Local Brooklyn Paper, Dies at 79

Active in politics, he was best known as publisher of The Phoenix Newspaper. He

and his wife, Dnynia Armstrong, 80, died of the coronavirus a month apart.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/obituaries/michael-armstrong-dead-coronavirus.html

Answers:

1. Official style

2. Publicistic style

3. Belles-lettres style

4. Scientific style

5. Newspaper style