Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 210):
Qualities of projection are unlikely or impossible as the Attribute of figures of doing (thus it is hard to interpret she polished it certain [contrast she polished it clean] and while we can say he drove her mad [caused figure of being] and he drove the car hot [figure of doing with Attribute], we cannot say he drove the car mad).
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I certainly can. In this instance, mad is an Attribute that depicts the emotional state of the driver.
