Field Mode


darwinism

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Grammar Checker


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Simple Interpersonal Analysis


my director would scream at me

my director Subject

would Finite: modal (usuality)

scream Predicator

at me Adjunct

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Robin Fawcett’s Annual Pre-ISFC Rut


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The Study Of Discourse (‘Text Linguistics’)


Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 658):

A text is meaningful because it is an actualisation of the potential that constitutes the linguistic system; it is for this reason that the study of discourse (‘text linguistics’) cannot properly be separated from the study of the grammar that lies behind it.

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Redundancy


buyavowel

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Sample Attributive Clause Analysis


She was glad about the decision.

She: Carrier

was: Process: relational

glad: Attribute

about the decision: Matter

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