Meaning Of The Word Anacoluthon

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What's The Definition Of Anacoluthon?

anacoluthon in American English
a change from one grammatical construction to another within the same sentence, sometimes as a rhetorical device
noun: a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as It makes me so—I just get angry

anacoluthon in British English
noun: a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia

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