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Task 3.1 Comparing

clause complexes

Consider the following

two clause complexes. Please describe and compare their main features and functions.

1. It is easy to get to our centre from Mid Devon.

2. It is from Mid Devon that you can easily get here.

TASK 1.3

Consider the underlined parts of each extract and match them to

their best description:

Task

1.2

SFL considers the metafunctions as realising the

contextual parameters. Consider the following sentence taken from a text

about Venice:

My

new home had three rooms with marble floors and a view of the Misericordia

Canal.

Now look at the following modified sentences. Which

metafunction was changed in each case? Ideational, Interpersonal or Textual?

Task 1.1

Halliday

considers the lexicogrammatical systems of a language as realisations of the

metafunctions. Match each one of the grammatical systems below to the corresponding

metafunction.