... is the total event, which the text is functioning, together with the purposive activity of the speaker or the writer, it thus includes the subject matter as one element in it” It is clear that ... [of a transaction] are expecting language to for them in that situation," and tenor has to with who are taking part in the transaction as well as the "nature of the participants, their status and ... part of sentence coming first, is related to thought patterns and affects the making of text It was found in the data upon which this study is based that most of sentences in the progress reports...