Sentence examples for relational clause from inspiring English sources
This nominalization serves as a participant in a circumstantial relational clause where the Process is a "verbalization" of a conjunctive relation ('so'), viz.
leads to; this relational clause is an example of a common metaphoric rendering of the relation of 'cause'cause
(i) Attributive relational clause.
(ii) Identifying relational clause.
Whether attributive or identifying, a relational clause always includes at least two semantic roles.
Clause 49.2 is a relational clause, which is expressed by the lexical verb 'be rough'.
For another, Halliday's grammar was still growing beyond the 15 page hand-out stage, and so our appreciation of the significance of the Token/Value relation in relational clauses as a tool for thinking about layers of abstraction was inadequate.
Attributive relational clauses are used to relate, describe, and convey general characteristers.
As for the identifying relational clauses, they are used to relate participants to their identities and roles.
(2) Identifying relational clauses.
(1) Attributive relational clauses.
