Confusing Mood Adjuncts With Comment Adjuncts

Martin (2013: 37, 39):

And in other contexts verbs are used to classify (and are thus not gradable):

running shoes

industrialised nations

… Imperative clauses, giving commands, are typically indicated in English by the absence of a Finite and a Subject function.

In addition Halliday recognises Modal Adjuncts which add an interpersonal comment of some kind to the clause (a modalisation of probability below) …

Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, industrialised is gradable: there are less industrialised nations and more industrialised nations.

[2] To be clear, 'giving' is a poor choice of words, pedagogically, since commands involve demanding goods-&-services, as opposed to giving them.

[3] This is misleading, because, within the category of modal Adjunct, SFL Theory distinguishes between mood Adjuncts and comment Adjuncts. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 184):

We can recognise two types of modal Adjuncts, (i) mood Adjuncts and (ii) comment Adjuncts. (i) Mood Adjuncts serve within the Mood element, and are closely associated with the meaning of the Finite element – the limiting case being modality, which (as we have seen) can also be realised by the operator serving as Finite. (ii) Comment Adjuncts serve outside the Mood + Residue structure of the clause. They are not part of the proposition realised by Mood + Residue, but are instead comments on it (propositional) or on the act of exchanging it (speech-functional).