... captured by a good dictionary. For instance, the word“bank” has several distinct lexical definitions, including “financial institution” and “edge of a river”.Another example is as in apothecary. You ... bothpossible. (Halliday and Hasan, 1976:167)12Like the nominal group, the verbal group plays an important part in English sentences. In the traditional, structural and transformational grammars, the term ... (1991) agrees with Halliday and Hasan (1976) that substitution operates eitherat nominal, verbal and clausal level.1.7.1. Nominal SubstitutionHalliday and Hasan (1976: 91) indicate that “The...