Margaret Berry
Text analyst, academic, teacher and friend
Article outline
- 1.Theme: The writer’s priority
- 2.Exchange structure: A metafunctional approach
- 3.The middle ranks of grammar: Group and phrase
- 4.Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
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References
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