Identify the process in the following examples as behavioural or verbal by checking whether or not the process can report another clause. (If yes, verbal)
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[1] To be clear, the ability to report is not a reliable criterion for distinguishing verbal from behavioural processes, since targeting verbal processes do not easily project. This exercise includes one instance of a targeting verbal Process:
6. Everyone praised him
which would be falsely identified as behavioural on the basis of its inability to project.
An important distinction between targeting verbal clauses and behavioural clauses is voice. Unlike behavioural clauses, targeting verbal clauses are effective, and so operative or receptive, and the first participant is Agent, not Medium:
[2] Also problematic in this exercise, from a pedagogical point of view, is the unnecessary and confusing inclusion of the idiomatic expression in:
5. The baby was screaming its head off
where a nominal and adverbial group its head off together serve the same function as a single adverbial group very loudly (Manner circumstance).
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