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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Monday, 20 August 2012
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