Tuesday 28 January 2020

(The Fact That) The Bus Is 10 Minutes Late


The bus is 10 minutes late. This means that we won't be able to make it.


this (the fact that the bus is 10 minutes late)
means ('entails')
that we won't be able to make it
Token: reason
Process: identifying
Value: result


i.e. resolving the reference reveals this as a circumstantial relational clause of cause, which means it is metaphorical.  A more congruent agnate is:
Because the bus is 10 minutes late, we won't be able to make it.

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