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Qualitative Typology investigates predominant features
(phonetic, morphological and syntactic) in the contrasted languages
and characterizing them according to the predominance of some of
these qualities. Due to the predominance of some morphological
features languages may correspondingly be identified (classified) as
synthetic, analytical, agglutinative, etc.
Quantitative Typology which was singled out and identified
by American linguist J. Greenberg. The aim of this typology is to
investigate the quantitative correlation of some features and
phenomena and their identifying (dominant) role in the contrasted
languages.
Semasiological Typology which investigates the ways of
expressing meaning (the inner content) of language units in the
contrasted languages.
Onomasiological Typology. Its object of investigation is
isomorphic and allomorphic ways of giving family names and
nicknames to people in different contrasted languages.
Synchronic and Diachronic Typologies investigate
language units or phenomena of a definite level with the aim of
establishing isomorphism and allomorphism in their form and
meaning during a definite historical period (or periods) in the
contrasted languages.

2. The subject of contrastive grammar and its theoretical and
practical aims

Contrastive Grammar (CG) of English and Ukrainian
languages, being part of contrastive linguistics, has its object the
grammar structure of these two contrasted languages. The subject
matter of contrastive grammar is the peculiarities of expression of
the main grammatical categories and syntactic structures in both
contrasted languages.
Grammatical phenomena of different languages can be
contrasted according to three aspects: according to the content (у

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