Sunday, 3 July 2022

Problems With Exercise 3: Analysing (Expanding) Verbal Group Complexes

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 221):
Exercise 3 Analysing (expanding) verbal group complexes

Analyse the verbal group complexes in the following clauses, and then the verbal groups making up the complexes:

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The demonstration analysis is misleading because it misrepresents the structures of both the verbal group complex and its verbal groups. The two verbal groups in the complex are could make and dream, and only the finite verbal group has tense, and thus, a logical structure:

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