Halliday (2004) and Baker (1992) discuss some rare cases in English where verbs can occur initially as marked Themes in declarative clauses.
The most common type of Theme in an English declarative clause is a nominal group functioning as a Subject.
The knowledge theme contains mental models, declarative knowledge, and self-insight; the skills theme includes subthemes: marketing, opportunity, resource, interpersonal, learning, and strategic; and the attitudes one consists of entrepreneurial passion, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial identity, proactiveness, uncertainty/ambiguity tolerance, innovativeness, and perseverance.
The marked Theme conflated with the prepositional phrase in a declarative clause to provide circumstantial details about time.
The element which is typically chosen as Theme in an English clause depends on the choice of mood: declarative, interrogative or imperative.
Judd's love of visible space and declarative structure and his exaltation of the powers of human perception -- the main themes of his art -- are fully evident.
Only the higher layer of Theme, namely the main clause – or what Halliday (2004: 72) terms as a 'free major declarative clause' – will be considered as the unit of analysis in this study.
In this paper, we will avoid detailed recapitulation of themes that have been discussed extensively in the guideline literature (e.g., procedural vs. declarative knowledge).
Once again, the theme I knew so well came blaring through the speakers, once again Jones, in that fierce, declarative singing style of his, asserted: He always runs, while others walk/ He acts, while other men just talk/ He looks at the world and wants it all/ So he strikes like Thunderball I could see what my son was driving at.
