enallage
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English
[edit]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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἐναλλαγή (enallagḗ, “interchange, variation”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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[1]:
- 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.