Note that Halliday's "preposition group" is a unit that fills a preposition, and not, like our 'prepositional group', a unit that has a preposition as its pivotal element. Thus the meaning of its name runs counter to the pattern set by his use of the terms "nominal group", "verbal group" and "adverbial group". One of his few examples of a 'preposition group' is right behind (the door).
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[1] To be clear, this is an elementary error, and the reverse of what is true. A preposition "fills" (serves as the Head of) a preposition group.
[2] This is misleading. Fawcett's prepositional group is the counterpart of the prepositional phrase —not the preposition group — in SFL Theory. Moreover, in modelling the prepositional phrase as a group, Fawcett misconstrues it as the (univariate) expansion of a word (preposition) instead of the contraction of a (multivariate) clause, with preposition serving as minor Process/Predicator.
[3] This is misleading, because it is the opposite of what is true; see [1]. The Heads of nominal, verbal and preposition groups are nominals, verbs and prepositions, respectively. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 75):
[4] This is not misleading, because it is true.
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