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TEXTUAL THEMES

Textual Themes relate the clause to its context. The Conjunction ‘but’ remains
at the beginning of the second clause in each pair. The Conjunctive Adjunct
‘nevertheless’ can occur in various positions in the clause.

- The procedure was simple

but, nevertheless was very effective.

- The procedure was simple,

but was, nevertheless, very effective.

- The procedure was simple

but was very effective nevertheless.
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Continuatives are a small set of items which, if they are there, are always at
the beginning of the clause and signal that a new move is beginning. For
example : well, right, OK, now, anyway, of course.

Right, what we need to is revise for our

do today test.

continuatives Topical Rheme

Theme
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Conjunctives relate the clause to the preceeding text by providing a logical

link between the messages.

Well, on the other we could wait

hand,
continuatives conjunctive topical Rheme
Theme
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Likewise Conjunctions almost always occur at the beginning of a clause and

carry the logico-semantic relations between clauses.

Well, on the other if we wait until

hand, Tuesday...
continuatives conjunctive structure tropical Rheme
Theme
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Modal Adjunct:

Perhaps we Can wait until

nexk week
Modal inerpersonal Topical Rheme
Theme
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Vocatives
Dearly beloved we Are gathered here
today
Vocative Topical Rheme
Theme

Mary, we Deciced to wait

until next week
Vocative Topical Rheme
Theme
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In the clause below the person’s name is not used as a Vocative; therefore it
is Topical and not Interpersonal.

Mary Deciced to wait until next week

Topical Theme Rheme

Anyway, Mary we Deciced to wait

until next week ?

Continuatives Vocative Topical Rheme

Textual Interpersonal Topical

Theme