A Guide For The Theoretically Ready Willing & Able
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Extent: Spatial Or Temporal [Diagnostic: Interrogative Probe]
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 315):
Extent
construes the extent of the unfolding of the process in space-time: the distance in space over which the process unfolds or the
duration in time during which the process unfolds. The interrogative forms for Extent are how far?, how long?, how many [measure units]?, how
many times?.