Frustration

I've been trying to do a tense table, with active and passive sentences, and all that whatnot, and all i've gotten for my trouble is this massive migraine. I'm doing literature, dammit! It's about the art of the language, not the technicalities (sorry, mr ravi, i know you think them important)! Argh. I know, i know; as mr ravi says, to break the rules as literature often does, one must first know the rules. But still! I KNOW how to use past perfect or perfect continuous tenses, its just that when i use them, i don't really know what they ARE. It's frustrating! Do i need to know them? Sometimes, i get a vague understanding of their importance, but most of the time i feel that i've survived without knowing their names for coming on 21 years, and another 21 years of blissful ignorance will suit me just fine.

And on a related subject, passive sentences are boring, dry, and just plain screwed up. They make the sentence sound like it's coming from very far away, or something. 'The letter was typed by Sharon' sounds so.... I dunno... listless. I sppose that's where the term 'passive' came from. Ah well. Going to sleep now. Midvalley tmr! I heart fridays! NO CLASS!