even
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the best of our models
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are
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no more than
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aids to the imagination
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mood Adjunct: intensity: counterexpectancy: exceeding
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Subject
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Finite
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mood Adjunct: intensity: counterexpectancy: limiting
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Complement
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Mood
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Residue
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Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 153):
There are two lexical verbs in English, be and have, where, strictly speaking, the simple past and simple present forms consist of Finite element only, rather than of a fusion of Finite with Predicator. This is shown by the negatives: the negative of is, was is isn’t, wasn’t — not doesn’t be, didn’t be.
