PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS EXPRESSING THE EXTREME DEGREE OF A QUALITY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The article deals with the structural and semantic peculiarities of the phraseological units expressing the extreme degree of a quality. According to the structural classification suggested by I.V. Arnold, the analyzed idioms belong to the adverbial, adjectival, substantive and verbal types. No phraseological units of the interjectional type were found among the studied corpus. As for their semantic peculiarities the studied phraseological units may include explicit or implicit comparison, comprise such markers as ‘all’, ‘whole’, 'very’ or contain pairs of antonyms representing extremely intensified qualities.