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Table 2 Clause simplexes

From: Causal relations on a cline of explicitness: an SFL perspective

Experiential congruency

Logical congruency

Textual congruency

Delicacy

Clause simplex

✔ X

X

X

X

(1) The traditional approach has consistently failed through ignorance of the realities of history and material development.

✔ X

X

X

✔

(2) The traditional approach has consistently failed due to/because of/owing to/as a result of ignorance of the realities of history and material development.

X X

X

X

✔

(3) The traditional approach consistent failure was caused by ignorance of the realities of history and material development.

X X

X

X

✔

(4) The cause of the consistent failure of the traditional approach was ignorance of the realities of history and material development.