Friday, 17 October 2014

Doing/Being Complementarity

(a) ‘Doing’ Perspective:

They
cleaned
the shower
Actor
Process
Goal


(b) ‘Being’ Perspective:

They
cleaned (made clean)
the shower
Attributor
Process/Attribute
Carrier

See Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 132-3).

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