“O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit; / For never sore but might a salve obtain ….”

However, even in a consistent null language like EP, VS is not free: in declarative sentences, it must meet some pragmatic conditions, and structural conditions such as monoargumentality affect the speakers' preference for its use.

Perhaps I have a frighteningly sievish memory, but I’ll be damned if I can flip a folded chart back and forth and remember exactly what was on the other side.

He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.