Functional Grammar

1. Verbal processes are processes of ‘______’ or ‘_______’.

• saying - communicating

• existing - happening

• behaving - thinking

• saying - thinking

Behavioural Processes are described semantically as a ‘half-way house’ between…. and …. processes.

• Verbal - Material

• Verbal - Existential

• Mental - Material

• Mental - Relational

 What are other names of existential processes?

• Being or Having

• Doing or Existing

• Existing or Happening

•  Happening or Doing

“Shouted” in “Someone shouted a warning” is ______________ process.

• Mental

• Verbal

• Material

• Relational

Sometimes there is a Range-like Participant in Behavioural Processes known as ....................

• Senser

• Behaviour

• Behaver

• Verbiage

 Which participant belongs to Existential processes?

• Actor

•  Sayer

• Senser

•  Existent

five languages in “He speaks five languages.” is the ____________.

• range

• circumstance

• verbiage

• scope

Which one belongs to Behavioural Process?

•  I am listening to the radio.

• She talks to him about her childhood.

• There were 20 people in the embassy.

• China is a permanent member of the United Nation Security Council.

Which component may be omitted in this sentence?

 Once upon a time there was a weird grammarian.

• There

• Was

• A weird grammarian

• Grammarian

Can you analyze the existential process in the following sentence?

There is a man at the door.