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Similar errors may be
committed in connexion with the various kinds of
pronouns, interjections and prepositions. It is also
a solecism1 if there is a disagreement between what
precedes and what follows within the limits of a
single clause.
1 The meaning of this passage is uncertain, but the solecism in question is probably an anacoluthon.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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