Single inverted commas

Although it is usual to enclose a word under discussion in single inverted commas, I have chosen instead to emphasise it in red to prevent confusion with apostrophes.
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Monday 20 August 2012

ANACOLUTHON

This term is used when the speaker ends a sentence with a different grammatical construction from the one at the start. It is obviously common in everyday chat but is also a rhetorical device to indicate, usually, high emotion as when King Lear says:
     I will have such revenges on you both
     That all the world shall - I will do such things,
     What they are, yet I know not ... (Act II scene iv lines 277-279)
The dash in this Arden edition indicates the break in syntax.



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  1. English for Beginners20 August 2012 at 06:08

    Thanks for this informative post. This is useful term & works in language.

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