tial (typically realized in adverbials) elements it contains through illustrate the example soap text¡XFriends. The texts are provided in the Appendix.
The grammar of English differentiates the following process types: Action, Event, State, Mental Process, Verbal Process (Fairclough 1992a, Halliday 1985).
ƒÜ Action¡Xinvolves both the participant-types Actor and Patient. (Person or thing
affected by action; the Actor does something to the Patient). Transitive verbs.
Scene 1: love, thank, want, wait, stop, drink, got, chime, burn, get, go, agree, start, go, get, stay, gotta, stop, leave
Scene 3: thank, getting, get, gonna, shake, cause, give, like, did, break up, get back, attached, getting, gotta
Scene 4: playing, enter, trying, got, got, got, attempt, try to, sup, put, take hurt, playing, whack, look, keep, asking, unable to, wanted to, do, did
ƒÜ Event¡Xinvolves just one participant, which something (the Actor) happens, and
it does not affect anything or anyone but (the Actor). Intransitive verbs.
Scene 1: make, clear, raise, doubt, do, get up, look, stops, look, ensue, come, ate,
Scene 2: walking, happen, failed, exit,
Scene 3: exit, come, guess, scream, go
Scene 4: come on, go, goes, closes, happens, happened
ƒÜ State¡Xcommon verbs ¡V be, have.
Scene1: being, be, have (decided), has (had), have, am (supposed), is (around),
Scene 2: is (dressed), were (tired), had, am (worried), am (fascinated),
Scene 3: are (getting married), have, were (a nightmare), was (some good times),
are (good at), had (a bonus night),had, being( the dumbest),
Scene 4: is(in last),have(adop
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