| Usually, anacolutha are close enough to a grammatical construction, or can be traced back to a familiar pattern, to be understood without problem by the receptor. |
| For example, Plato's dialogues contain a lot of anacolutha, which would now be rejected as ungrammatical, and the same applies to Shakespeare's plays. |
| On the other hand, his style suffers from ellipses, parentheses, and anacolutha. |
