Topic 4 (session A) - The grammar of simple sentences > SPOCA analysis

SPOCA analysis and what it can show

In this section we will practice a bit of SPOCA grammatical analysis and use that analysis to begin to show how it contributes to the production of meaning in texts.

Of course, what we have said about grammatical analysis so far has related to very simple sentences indeed, and even the simplest of texts will have more complex sentences than the ones we have looked at so far. To say anything interesting usually needs a bit more complexity than the grammarian's simple sentence examples. So we will introduce a couple of new things first, to help you with the texts in this section.

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