The analysis concludes that there are general patterns of lexico - grammatical choices in them . there are far more material and relational processes , a relatively smaller number of mental and verbal processes and few behavioural and existential processes . present tense is frequently used 我們發(fā)現(xiàn)詞匯語法選擇在董事長致辭中有如下模式:從及物性角度而言,物質過程和關系過程居多,心理過程與言語過程相對較少,幾乎沒有行為過程和存在過程。