Seriously Misrepresenting The Logical Structure Of A Verbal Group In More Detail

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 175):

The English TENSE system construes the temporal relation between the interpersonal speaking time, ‘now’, and the experiential time of the event, the event time, as a series of one or more temporal relations. Our earlier example contains a series of four tense selections:

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Here the authors yet again repeat their misrepresentation of the experiential structure of this verbal group. As previously noted, according to SFL Theory, the experiential structure is:

And again, more importantly, the authors seriously misrepresent the logical structure of this verbal group, but this time with more detail. According to SFL Theory, the logical structure is:

Cf Halliday (1994: 199):