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The document discusses the distinction between foreground and background in discourse. Foreground provides the main points and skeleton of the text through ordered events, while background puts context around the skeleton but is not essential to the structure. Foreground uses high transitivity verbs and focuses on completed actions between participants, while background uses low transitivity and incomplete actions with fewer participants. The distinction between foreground and background helps explain gramm

Author

Rishani Paskarapathy Rajah

Language

EN