Transitivity

Language has three metafunctions (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014) Which does not belong?

• Textual metafunction

• Intrapersonal metafunction

• Ideational metafunction

• Interpersonal metafunction

Transitivity does not involve

• Participants

• Preordinance

• Circumstances

• Processes

Major processes of transitivity do not include

• Material processes

• Mental processes

• Behavioral processes

• Relational processes

• Verbal processes

Minor processes of transitivity generally only include

• Behavioral and existential processes

• Mental and material processes

• Relational and verbal processes

• They only include relational processes

Criteria for mental processes usually don't include

• Feeling

• Thinking

• Sensing

• Wanting

• The progressive form

Material processes usually accept the progressive form, right--or am I changing your mind?

• Right! Material processes accept the progressive form, yes.

• You're changing my mind...I'm not sure

• WRONG. Material processes DO NOT accept the progressive form.

A relational process could be which of the following?

• She is my teacher

• She will be a teacher

• She has a good teacher

• All of these are relational

Hybrid processes can combine which of the following processes?

• Relational + mental

• Relational + material

• Material + Mental

• None of these can be combined

Which of these sentences is epistemic?

• It's going to rain, take your umbrella.

• Don't go out with your umbrella, it's going to rain.

• Don't get the Astra-Zéneca vaccine, it's causing blood clots.

Which sentence is deontic?

• It's going to rain, take your umbrella.

• Don't go out without your umbrella, it's going to rain.