ENGLISH COMPARATIVE STRUCTURES IN THE CONTEXT OF SEMANTIC FORMS OF THINKING OLGA KRAVETS (RUSSIA) Human thought is characterized into two types of thinking processes: the logical and the semantic. Logical forms of thinking, which are universal for all languages and cultures, are generated by the needs of the cognition process involved in practical activities of people and are independent of the peculiarities of the grammatical system of any language. Semantic forms of thinking, however, have a particular character and should be considered as national forms of thinking linked to the specifics of the grammatical system of a language. “The characteristic feature of semantic forms of thinking is their variability at different stages of development of a language and also in different situations of application in the same historical period.” 1 This research deals with the comparative structures of the English language which constitute a functional-semantic field: “A functional-semantic field is a system of linguistic means at various levels of a given language (morphological, syntactical, word-formational, lexical, and also combined—lexico-syntactical, etc.) united due to the community and interplay of their semantic functions… The term ‘functional-semantic field’ gives prominence to the idea of the grouping (a systematised array) of linguistic means interacting on a semantico- functional basis and their system-structural organization.” 2 P.V. Chesnokov describes semantic forms of thinking in the context of twelve key characteristics. We will consider some of them in regard to the 1 Chesnokov, P.V. Functional-semantic field with gnoseological stratification, 99 2 Bondarko, A.V. Functional Grammar. A Field Approach, 21