Galina V. Mironova - Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia
Tatiana G. Voloshina - Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia
Natalia A. Sheifel - Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia
Svetlana M. Profatilova - Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia
Ludmila E. Ostapova - Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia

The article analyzes the role of presupposition in the compound-complex sentence. The authors examine the types of presuppositions and minimal compound-complex sentence as a field of presuppositions action. The analysis of these types of sentences by the material of the English language shows that several kinds of presuppositions are realized in them – contact or distant, - developing in the retrospective and prospective plans. The whole complex of presuppositions performs a text-forming function.

The Compound-Complex Sentence, The Presupposition, Retrospection, Prospection