A Comparison of Transitivity System in English and Chinese

60 L. KENDALL

Writing reports, especially in a second language, is often an excruciating task unless the wiriter is one o'f the lucky few who can master a second language, including its

In (5a), according to Oka, the focus is placed on the individuum (i.e. the

has intensifiers common to American English, the nation also has their unique intensifiers, especially, the subtypes Semantic Feature Copying, Evaluative and Modal, which are

In other circles – Singapore and Norfolk Island - people have contact with texts produced inside English language cultures in those zones extending to creole varieties which