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active adjective adjunct-clauses adverbial analysis anaphoric antecedent applies apposition attribute auxiliary B-clauses binder bracketing cataphoric cells chromatophores clause containing clause-complexes clause-relation clearly comma complement conflates constituent clause construction contrast coordinative coordinative complexes corpus correlation covert subject deleted dependent clauses discussed distinction distinguish domain extended element embedded clause equative extended domain fact finite function grammatical group-complex homophoric IC's identified immediate constituent implicit infinitival clause ing-clause instance interrogative intransitive introduced involved John latter layer lexical verb linker marked theme matrix clause meaning meiosis modal molecules mood dimension negative non-finite clause non-restrictive object clause occur P-group passive position possible predicator prepositional group pronoun punctuation qualifier realisation recipient reference relation relative clause restrictive semantic sentence sentence-adjuncts similar sporangia sporangium stratum structure subordinate T-subject Table tense thematic Total transitivity treated underlined unspecified verbal group WH-item whereas zero