There’s this odd sense of self-assured Jaded Gritty Realism™️ that people adopt when they’re condescending critics to their left and, actually, you’re not TOO based and blackpilled, the problem is almost always that, having barely tasted of the bitter medicine, you say “but surely THAT can’t be true”
![2.2.2 Bare passive clauses
It is possible for a passive clause to contain just a subject and the past participle of a verb. CGEL calls such clauses bare passive clauses. Having no tensed verb, they cannot generally occur as full sentences, but they do occur as adjuncts, as seen in the underlined parts of the Wall Street Journal corpus examples in (6).
(6) a. That said, however, Korea is Korea, not the Philippines.
b. One of its ads shows a washed-out manager, arms folded, sitting in a corner.
One context in which bare passive clauses occur on their own is newspaper headlines:
(7)
a.
France accused of running vast data surveillance scheme to keep tabs on population
[The Independent, 5 July 2013]
b.
28 injured in accidental detonation [Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2013]
C.
Chinese swimmers driven away by smelly green algae BBC News website, 5 July 2013]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jg3hlyjpcn4n5sbryi3qhyiv/bafkreiaycoiucy7hidxv3mm4mb6lnwhx427a2r37rfztc3ebvbxl475mqm)
