The paper is devoted to the study and analysis of the grammatical and stylistic features of the translation of English absolute constructions into Russian on the material of English-language works of literature of the 20th century. The lack of knowledge on the issue necessitated the study of several works and translations. The work was based on the works of William Saroyan, Anthony Burgess, and John Steinbeck and translated editions of these works. The main approaches to the definition of absolute constructions and absolute phrases in the English language are reviewed; the types of absolute phrases are considered; the functions of absolute constructions, described by different scientists, are described; the grammatical and stylistic features of absolute constructions in the English language are studied; the grammatical and stylistic features of the translation of absolute constructions from English into Russian are analyzed.

The paper is devoted to the study and analysis of the examination task in the written part of the Russian Unified State Examination. It is called an essay or a written statement with reasoning elements and has been being conducted in the Russian Federation since 2005. The aim of the paper is to work out a self-study algorithm helping examinees to complete task 40 (a written statement with reasoning elements) in the Unified State Examination format successfully. The author of the article paid much attention to the study of the history, aim, structure, and statistical results of the exam in the English language in 2019. The transformation of task 40 in the written part of Unified State Examination into the task with the possibility for an exam participant to choose one of two statements is considered and the peculiarities of this task are thoroughly described. The structure of task 40, assessment criteria, subject matter, language material (syntax, morphology, vocabulary, phonetics), typical mistakes are studied and analyzed. The Demo version of an essay 2020 is presented and analyzed in the paper. The work is based on the data of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The purpose of the article is to consider the system of assessing the level of graduates’ mastering the Federal Component of the State Educational Standard in the Russian Federation. The stated problem has been the subject of efficient research since the moment of introducing the Unified State Exam (USE) in Russia in 2005. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the assessment system is demonstrated through the comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between the (USE) in the Russian Language (native) and the English Language (foreign), carried out by the authors. Lately the number of students taking both an exam in Russian and English has been increasing and according to this the content and tasks in both exams have been modified. The authors describe the forms of the State Final Certification (SFC) for the English and the Russian Languages, participants, terms and duration, requirements for the USE, means of communication during the SFC, procedures for checking examination works and others. The reveals that there is a significant similarity between two types of examinations and learning both the Russian and English Languages is really important that is primarily due to the modern trends in the development of Russian society.