Course paper english lexicology

The aim of the work is to present an overview of the problems of synonymy in Modern English and their types, degree and changes through history and consider them in more detail.
The tasks of the investigation include:
- to teach the problem of synonymy to young learners.
- to show the importance of the problem for those who want to brush up their English.
- to mention all the major of linguists opinions concerning the subject studied.
- to study, analyze, and sum up all the possible changes happened in the studied branch of linguistics.
The main language material of the work has been gathered from the Internet sources, literary works and the textbooks in English Lexicology of various authors. Thus, words, their definitions and examples in which the words are used, are taken from the authentic English sources, so that the evidence of the research results could be doubtless.