the silepsis is a kind of agreement whose terms inflected agree in number, gender or people with the idea associated with the referent of subject gives prayer. This agreement is known as "ideological" because she no is related to subject's core, but, yea, à idea associated with prayer subject.
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→ Number Silepsis
It commonly occurs when the prayer subject it is a substantive that has the shape singular, but indicates the idea of plurality.
Example:
fly, fly up into the sky, gang!
collective noun verb
(plural singular)
As you could see, the collective noun "bunch" has the form singular, but recovers one collective sense (birds). Therefore, it is the same as saying: “fly, fly up into the sky, birds!”
Observation: THE number silepsis is most often used in literary texts compared to the frequency of use in the informal dialogues.
→ Gender Silepsis
It occurs, most of the time, with the pronouns treatment, but it can also occur with someIndefinite Pronouns gender neutral.
Gender silepsis with treatment pronoun:
Example:
Your Holiness stayed cheered up with the repercussion of the news.
Adjective Pronoun
treatment (masculine)
(feminine)
Gender silepsis with indefinite gender-neutral pronoun:
Example:
I know of somebody I would like you very much Theknead.
Indefinite Pronoun Personal Pronoun
(neutral) of the oblique case
(feminine)
→ Person Silepsis
Occurs when the speaker appears included in a subject at 3rd person plural.
Example:
They asked the teachers why us let's unite for the quality of education.
3rd person plural 1st person plural
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