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Mood Residue
EXAMPLE 2
Mood Residue
Example 4
A: I didn’t steal your wallet!
B: Yes, you did.
A: No, I didn’t!
B: Did!
A: Didn’t!
Subject Finite Predicator Complement
Mood Residue
Mood
Mood
No, I didn’t!
Finite
Mood
Didn’t!
DISCUSSION
Analyze the interpersonal metafunction of these
sentences.
• I haven’t had breakfast.
• You made some mistakes.
• Will you accomplish this task?
• Unfortunately, we don’t have much time to
discuss this.
• Who killed President J.F Kennedy?
• Whose bag is this?
• Which University did you choose to attend?
EXPERIENTIAL METAFUNCTION
• Clause as Representation
• The clause represents the ‘content’ of our
experiences, answering the question ‘Who
does what to whom’.
• This metafunction uses the grammatical
system of transitivity (process)
TG View FG View
my wife’s
I bought last month
handphone