Switching the sentence’s routeSourced
The ending can depart from the grammar of the start
Anacoluthon interrupts a sentence’s expected structure, continuing in a different grammatical pattern. It occurs in informal speech and can be used deliberately in literature to evoke emotion or associative thought. A discontinuity is not always simply an unintended failure.
The sentence may change direction while it is being spoken.
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