enallage
English
Examples (grammatically correct transformation) |
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He came, didn't he? for |
Examples (grammatically incorrect substitution) |
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We was robbed for |
Alternative forms
- enallagy
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐναλλαγή (enallagḗ, “interchange, variation”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛˈnælədʒiː/
Noun
enallage (countable and uncountable, plural enallages)
- (rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
- (rhetoric) The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
- 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
- And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.
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Hyponyms
- alleotheta, allotheta, alleosis;
See also
enallage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia