... suggesting and so on, The Sayer can be a human or human-like speaker, and also any other symbolic source. Other participants are Verbiage and Receiver. The teacher repeated The question again and againI ... as the foundation; hence the grammar is natural, and so to be organized around the text, or discourse” (Halliday, 1994).+Descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar Although traditional grammar and ... function rather than form, rhetoric rather than logic, text rather than sentence, resources rather than rules, meaningfulness rather than grammaticality. The differences between the two grammars...