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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Even

Hello,

He spied for his country many times, even killed a lot of enemy combatants.

Can 'even' be used like this to connect two clauses?

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anonymous Can 'even' be used like this to connect two clauses? That is not what you're seeing. " It's as though it's a two-item list employing asyndeton, the omission of the conjunction.

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  • anonymous Can 'even' be used like this to connect two clauses?
  • That is not what you're seeing.
  • " It's as though it's a two-item list employing asyndeton, the omission of the conjunction.
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anonymousCan 'even' be used like this to connect two clauses?

That is not what you're seeing. It could just as well have been "He spied for his country many times, killed a lot of enemy combatants." It's as though it's a two-item list employing asyndeton, the omission of the conjunction. You could extend it like so: "He spied for his country many times, kil

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