A Misrepresentation In Exercise 16: Discriminating Circumstances From Other Elements

 Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 143):

Label the participants and circumstances in the following clauses. See Table 4.4.

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To be clear, this is misleading because it misrepresents the Behaver of a behavioural clause, the two girls, as the Actor of a material clause; see Halliday (1994: 139); Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 251); Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 302). Elsewhere in this publication, the authors inconsistently list dance as behavioural (p108) and material (p111, 117), despite it functioning in the same type of clause in every case.