anacoluthon
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2ADJ.
grammatical
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after
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noun
A sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause.
The name of his dog is — I don't really remember right now.
Another species of anacoluthon is when, after the sentence is begun with a participle, the construction passes over into a finite verb, where we should naturally expect the participial construction to be continued.
Intentional use of such a structure.
Anacoluthon, though a grammatical defect, is a rhetorical beauty, if naturally produced or imitated; as, "If thou art he—but oh! how fallen!"
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noun — an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic struct
- anacoluthia
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3The name of his dog is — I don't really remember right now.
WiktionaryAnother species of anacoluthon is when, after the sentence is begun with a participle, the construction passes over into a finite verb, where we should naturally expect the participial construction to
WiktionaryAnacoluthon, though a grammatical defect, is a rhetorical beauty, if naturally produced or imitated; as, "If thou art he—but oh! how fallen!"
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