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A carelessness about inflection in Pepys's day is shown above with the examples of the objective I and who . Rarer back then was the use of whole phrases as single words as, for instance: to quickly and efficiently do this job, where the verb and two adverbs are treated together as a so-called split infinitive marked by to, instead of the prescribed to do this job quickly and efficiently, where only do is the infinitive marked as such by to and modified by two adverbs.
Samuel Pepys, never confused by an American schoolmarm, invariably, so far as I have found, used I instead of me when the pronoun was combined with another pronoun or noun as the object of a verb or preposition.
as in “That ol' boy like to of killed hisself” or in Pepys's entry for April 14, 1660:“.
Pepys's Diary owes its eventual status as a classic to its candor and the author's privileged position as an observer of Restoration England.
Pepys also has a tendency to omit subject pronouns, reminding one of television commercials: “Had a bowl of Whamo this morning.