He was conveyed to his place of residence in an intoxicated condition. He was carried home drunk.
Q said that the first sentence was Jargon and the second was good English prose.
Here is my recommendation for our eleventh book of the year: Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff. We learn how she discovered Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and his On the Art of Writing (1916) and all that follows. Here is the worksheet.
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