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EXTRA PRACTICE ON VERBAL PROCESS TYPES
Instructions.
1) Read the text below
2) Identify the lexical verbs in each line. (The number is indicated in the column at the
left).
3) UNDER each verb you have underlined, label it with the appropriate verb(al) process
type.
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She breathed heavily in her sleep. Deep, slow breaths. Suddenly the little girl
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screamed loudly and sat straight up in bed. She had had a very bad and strange
dream.
1
“Mom!” she yelled.
2
Her mother heard the cry and came quickly to her daughter’s room.
2
“There is a monster rabbit under my bed!” she said.
3
“No dear. There is no rabbit here….” said the mother reassuringly as she checked
under the bed.
3
“But… What is this? It is your stuffed bear!” she exclaimed.
NOTES
B= Behavioral
This is a grey area between Material and Mental Processes. These are involuntary or semi-involuntary and
unconscious processes.
They can ONLY take a HUMAN participant.
laugh
blink
sneeze
yawn
die
faint
collapse
fall
blush
sigh
Downing, p. 85
M = Mental
These are sensing verbs and reflect the process of our internal world.
They are typically in relation to humans—or
non-humans given human-like qualities—describing what we think, feel, desire and perceived.
thinking
Feeling and wanting
perceiving
Know
Decide
Like
See
Reflect
Consider
Hate
Taste
Comprehend
Recall
Dislike
Hear
Believe
Hypothesize
Want
Smell
Imagine
Wonder
Wish
Observe
Forget
Understand
Need
Notice
Remember
Assume
Fear
sense
Recollect
Recognize
enjoy
Realize
infer
Derewianka, 2011, p. 22
Examples in context:
Tom saw the ball in the tall grass. He knew it wasn’t his, but he wanted to get it. He didn’t
realize there were lots of nettles among the grass.
He soon felt his hand stinging. He
wished he had noticed the nettles.
Downing, p. 139
V = Verbal
These are the processes of saying and communicating. The typical Verbal Process is say, but there are
many others. For example:
ask
deny
plead
respond
stammer
claim
explain
promise
tell
suggest
imply
reply
shout
whisper
murmur
Bloor and Bloor;
Derwianka 2011 p. 20
Ma= Material
Material processes could be said to involve “doing words” or “action verbs”.
R = Relational
Relational processes express the concept of being in a broad sense. They answer the questions “who or
what, where/when or whose is some entity, or What is some entity like?’ In other words, relational
processes cover various ways of being: being something, being in some place/at some time, or in relation
of possession. (Downing p. 144)
Their eldest son is a musician.
Your sister looks tired.
The museum is around the corner.
These keys are my brother’s
The baby has blue eyes.
These verbs do not express actions, speaking or thoughts or feeling. Their job is to simply link two pieces
of information.
being
Examples:
having
Am, is, are
Represent
Have, has, had
Was, were
Remain
Possess
Mean
Equal
Own
Become
symbolize
Include
Seem
Comprise
appear
Lack
Derewianka, 2011, p. 24
encompass
X = Existential
Existential processes have only one participant. This type of process has two main forms of
grammatical realization: There as subject and the copular verb (BE)
There is no action or relationship being described: simply a state.
Examples:
There was an old house on the hill.
There is a hole in your jeans.
There was nothing to do.
There was a not a breath of air stirring.
Derewianka, 2011, p.25
EXTRA PRACTICE ON VERBAL PROCESS TYPES
Instructions.
4) Read the text below
5) Identify the lexical verbs in each line. (The number is indicated in the column at the
left).
6) UNDER each verb you have underlined, label it with the appropriate verb(al) process
type.
She breathed heavily in her sleep. Deep, slow breaths. Suddenly little girl screamed
B
V
loudly and sat straight up in bed. She had had a very bad and strange dream.
Ma
R
“Mom!” she yelled.
V
Her mother heard the cry and came quickly to her daughter’s room.
M
Ma
“There is a monster rabbit under my bed!” she said.
X
V
“No dear. There is no rabbit here….” said the mother reassuringly as she checked
R
V
Ma
under the bed.
“But… What is this? It is your stuffed bear!” she exclaimed.
R
B= Behavioral
M = Mental
V = Verbal
Ma= Material
R = Relational
X = Existential
R
V