Means of expressing modality in Modern English

The theme of the term paper is the expression of modality in English.
The subjects of research are modal words in modern English as the basic lexical means of expressing modality.
The tasks and objectives of the work. Having based upon the actuality of the theme we are able to formulate the general goals of our qualification work.
a) To study, analyze, and sum up the modern methods of teaching writing;
b) To analyze the major results achieved in the studied field;
c) To prove the idea of importance of improving students’ writing skills;
d) To analyze school textbooks and work out a series of activities for improving students’ writing skills.
The methods of the research. The main methods for compiling our work are the method of analysis and the method of research. In our work, we analyzed school textbooks and added some new activities which we considered suitable for teaching and improving students’ writing skills.
The novelty and practical importance of the work. The novelty of this research work is to find information about means of expressing modality. This theme has been worked out by many scientists and researchers before but from the point of analyzing Uzbek school textbooks and creating a series of writing tasks in those textbooks hasn’t been done yet. Also, we consider the idea of approbating new writing materials on English language lessons during our pedagogical practice is also one part of the novelty of our work. The present work might find a good way of implying in the following spheres:
The purpose of the study is to identify the entity in the description and comprehensive analysis of modal words as a part of speech of the English language, as well as consider modal verbs as one means of implementation modality.
In accordance with the purpose the following aims were set:

1. 
   to determine the nature, and main characteristics of the category of modality;
   
2. 
   to describe the basic modal verbs;
   
3. 
   to describe the modal words as means of expression;
   
4. 
   to describe the modal words in terms of their lexical composition;
   
5. 
   to identify the syntactic function of modal words;