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Why treat 'verbal group', not 'verb phrase', as a constituent of a clause in Systemic Functional Grammar?
SFC (Halliday, etc.) doesn't treat as a constituent of a clause a verb phrase (VP), which combines with an noun phrase (NP) to form a clause in a canonical English construction. Instead, SFC uses the ...
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