“Anacoluthon is a kind of grammatical mismatch, where a sentence begins with one pattern, and then switches to another pattern.”
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<div><span style="background-color: initial; font-size: 0.875rem;">Example from VW: "and I, not being a very vigilant housekeeper – look at the dust on the mantelpiece, for example, the dust which, so they say, buried Troy three times over, only fragments of pots utterly refusing annihilation, as one can believe."</span><br></div>
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