This article is devoted to the study of the modality of possibility and impossibility, its functioning in the official discourse of the Arabic language. The speeches of the President of Egypt at the highest meetings of the League of Arab States over the past ten years were chosen as a source. In the course of the work, all means of expressing the modality of possibility and impossibility were selected and analyzed, and an attempt was made to systematize them by frequency of use and classify them by means of expression.

modality, possibility, impossibility, official discourse, subjective modality, particles, modal constructions, nasb, subjunctive mood, modal verb.

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