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I would take issue with the analysis of [ACTIVE ONLY, ACTIVE/PASSIVE,] and [PASSIVE ONLY] constructions, if only because one of the nastiest areas of grammatical analysis of English lies in distinguishing between passives--that is, past participles--and adjectives.
On the one hand, Pepys's English may seem slightly stilted or Biblical by modern standards, with frequent absolute constructions and the use of do as an auxiliary for affirmative verbs where no emphasis is intended, as, for example, in his entry for August 31, 1662, where he thanks “Almighty God, who doth most manifestly bless me in my endeavors to do the duty of my office--I now saving money, and my expenses being very little.”
' However, since French compounds tend to be rather explicit, and their components are generally strung together by all kinds of grammatical particles (conjunctions, prepositions, articles), this method often leads to tapewormish constructions, such as espace extra-atmosphérique for `outer space' or boucle en épingle à cheveux for `hairpin loop.
Pepys does not use they and its inflected forms as an indefinite singular pronoun nearly as commonly as we do in such constructions as “Everyone on their feet!”
If he is he is one of shit"--shit being, in Artaud's view, of human essence and the sole alternative to the void), he was beginning to draw complex, heavily laden constructions that look like architecture made from heads--in the very last drawing they are stacked, as in so many totem poles.
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