... of factual status but also subjective attitudes and orientation toward the content of an expression by its utterers.Halliday (An Introduction to Functional Grammar, 1985) views that modality ... a claim that is available to the person making that claim. This justification can be expressed by markers referring to immediate evidence on the basis of visual observation, to inference on the ... assumption, appearance, and all other types of supportive, auxiliary information, of which quotation and hearsay are found the most common. Diagram 2: Types of Evidentials (15) I heard...