INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………….3 I. COMPOUND SENTENCE IN ENGLISH AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF THEIR TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN………………………………………5 1.1 Definition of "translation" ………………………………………………5 1.2 Grammatical transformations of compound sentence when translating from English into Russian…………………………………………………………7 1.3 Difficulties in translating compound sentences…………………...…….12 II. FEATURES OF TRANSLATION OF COMPOUND SENTENCE…….14 2.1 Grammatical characteristics of a compound sentence in English……….14 2.2 Types of compound sentences……………………………… …………15 2.3 Analysis of translation of compound sentences…………………………15 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………...31 REFERENCES………………………………………………………………33