1. Hink Pinks Wander to your house Phony pain
What you say when you want the feline to leave
 Tiny sphere
Wander to your house
Phony pain
Scat Cat!
Small Ball
Roam Home
Fake Ache

2. Grammar 1 Verb Groups Part 1
Lexical Verbs (processes)
Finite/predicator

3. 20 Minutes

4.  Exercise 2 : Identifying processes in texts
Material process
Behavioral process
Mental process
Verbal process
Relational process
Existential process

5. My father takes me to a place we can only reach by boat.
Not many people go there, and you have to know the way through the reef. When we arrive, cockatoos rise from the forest in a squawking cloud. My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years.

6. My father says there used to be crocodiles here, and kangaroos that lived in trees. Maybe there still are. I follow a creek into the rainforest I pretend it is a hundred million years ago.

7. On the bank of the creek, the vines and creepers hold me back
On the bank of the creek, the vines and creepers hold me back. I push through. Now the forest is easy to walk in. I sit very still. …and [I] watch. …and [ I ]listen.

8.  Exercise 3 Function and Class
She screamed the answer.
The dog jumped up and ran after the cat.

9.  Exercise 3 Function and Class
VERBAL process
II She screamed the answer. II NG

10.  Exercise 3 Function and Class
F/P
He thought hard.
Mental Process

11.  Exercise 3 Function and Class
I am a happy grammar student
Relational Process

12.  Exercise 4 : Function and Class
What is the Subject? What is the F/P?
Time flies like an arrow

13.  Exercise 4 : Function and Class
Function S F/P Cx
ITime I flies I like an arrow I
Class NG VG PP

14.  Exercise 4 : Function and Class
ANSWERS
Function S F/P Cx
Time flies like an arrow
Class NG VG PP

15. Fruit flies like apples and bananas
What is the subject? What is the F/P?
Fruit flies like apples and bananas

16. Fruit flies like apples and bananas
HINTS
Function S F/P O
Fruit flies like apples and bananas
Class NG VG NG NG

17. IIFruit fliesI like Iapples [and] bananas II
ANSWERS
Function S F/P O
IIFruit fliesI like Iapples [and] bananas II
Class NG VG NG NG

18.  Exercise 5: Finite/ predicator
1. Identify the VG in the following by underlining.
2. Identify the auxiliary by circling.
3. Draw a BOX around the PREDICATOR.
4. What process type is this? ____________________
I was eating a banana.

19.  Exercise 5: Finite/ predicator
1. Identify the VG in the following by underlining.
2. Identify the auxiliary by circling.
3. Draw a BOX around the PREDICATOR.
I was eating a banana.

20.  Exercise 5 : Finite/ predicator
5. Change the original sentence to construe negative polarity.
I was eating a banana.

21.  Exercise 5 : Finite/ predicator
6. Add modality to the finite/ auxiliary to construe low modality (low level of certainty). You can keep the tense as is or change it to present.
I was not eating a banana.

22.  Exercise 5 : Finite/ predicator
6. Add modality to the finite/ auxiliary to construe low modality (low level of certainty). You can keep the tense as is or change it to present.
I may/might not be eating a banana.
I may/might not have been eating a banana.
I was not eating a banana.

23.  Exercise 5b : Finite/ predicator
1. Identify the VG in the following by underlining.
2. Identify the finite by circling.
He may have been an A student.

24. Predicator? Process?  Exercise 5b : Finite/ predicator
1. Identify the VG in the following by underlining.
2. Identify the finite by circling.
He may have been an A student.
Predicator?
Process?
BE(en)
Relational

25. He may have been an A student.
 Exercise 5b : Finite/ predicator
5. Add modality to the finite/ auxiliary to construe high value of modality. You can keep the tense as is or change it to past. 
He may have been an A student.

26.  Exercise 5b : Finite/ predicator
5. Add modality to the finite/ auxiliary to construe high value of modality. You can keep the tense as is or change it to past. 
He may have been an A student. =
He was/is an A student.
He could/must be an A student

27.  Exercise 5c : Finite/ predicator
Identify the VG in the following by underlining.
What PROCESS type is this?
Her father was a famous singer.

28.  Exercise 5c : Finite/ predicator
Identify the VG in the following by underlining.
What PROCESS type is this?
Her father was a famous singer.
FINITE only
Relational

29.  Exercise 5c : Finite/ predicator
3. Change the original sentence to construe negative polarity.
Her father was a famous singer
Her father was not a famous singer.

30.  Exercise 5d : Finite/ predicator
1. Identify the VG in the following by underlining.  
2. Identify the finite by circling.
3. Write out the event/ predicator of the verb group here:
4. What process type is this?
They may be singing that song in concert.

31.  Exercise 5d : Finite/ predicator
1. Identify the VG in the following by underlining.  
2. Identify the finite by circling.
3. Write out the event/ predicator of the verb group here: SING
4. What process type is this? VERBAL
They may be singing that song in concert.

32.  Exercise 5d : Finite/ predicator
5. Add modality to the finite/ auxiliary to construe high value of modality.
They may be singing that song in concert
They will be singing that song in concert.
They definitely will be singing that song in concert.

33. EXTRA!!!
Change to (simple) past tense.
She swims in the ocean.

34. EXTRA!!! She swam in the ocean.
Keep the tense. Change to negative polarity.
She swam in the ocean.

35. EXTRA!!!
She did not swim in the ocean.

36. EXTRA!!! She is swimming in the ocean.
What is the FINITE in the following VG?
What tense does it make?
She is swimming in the ocean.