COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A COORDINATING STRUCTURE COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A COORDINATING STRUCTURE

Аннотация

This article is about adjective phraseological units which come with coordinating structure. It analyzes definitions that are provided with verbal comparisons in English explanatory dictionaries (thus we avoid the definitions of the phraseological units and find out how the British themselves perceive their meanings). As a result of this analysis, it was possible to establish that without exception, all comparative phraseological units are determined only by means of phrases and, therefore, are closer to them than to words. And although, as we have already said, there is a certain connection between the phraseological units and the word (verb), in the English language there is still no sememe that would be formally expressed in one word and would convey the meaning of the entire phraseological unit - verbal comparison.