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There is a further drawback resulting from the faulty arrangement of words, with
which we are all familiar, namely, that it leads to
ambiguity. The above remarks will, I think, suffice
as a brief summary of the points which require
notice in connexion with order. If the order is
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faulty, our language will be deservedly liable to the
charge of lacking artistic construction, however
compact and rhythmical it may be.
The next point for consideration is connexion,
that is to say connexion between words, commata,
cola and periods.1 For all these have merits and
defects which turn on the way in which they are
linked together.
1 See ยง 22
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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