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Table 2 Percentages of verbal processes

From: Verbal processes in academic language in Spanish: exploring discourse genres within the systemic functional framework

 

Question-answers

Essays

Reviews

Articles

1

26

13.88

34.4

>13.08

2

36

<19.99

44

>13.87

3

36

14.28

<56.7

18.54

4

14

>5.19

>16.9

28.1

5

<55.5

10

>16.25

29.17

6

31

7.05

31.1

15.35

7

23

9.41

21

26.19

8

>11

 

<49.15

>14.29

9

18

 

28.5

23.94

10

13

  

<38.87

11

26

   

12

27

   

13

22

   

14

>6.7

   

15

>7

   

Average number of verbal processes

25.3

11.3

33.09

22.95

Average number of clauses

28.4

128.5

62.7

351.2

Standard deviation

±13

±5

±14.3

±8.5

  1. < Above standard deviation threshold.
  2. > Below standard deviation threshold.