Monday, 4 July 2022

Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing (Projecting) Verbal Group Complexes

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 221-2):
Exercise 4 Analysing (projecting) 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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This demonstration analysis is misleading because it misrepresents the logical structure of a verbal group as including an Event, and misrepresents the non-finite verbal group by assigning it a logical structure, despite there being no tense to be realised. According to SFL Theory, the analyses are as follows:

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