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==Examples== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- valign="top" ! Name !! Type of grammatical breach !! Example |- valign="top" | [[Catachresis]] ||Wrong [[grammatical case]] || "This is just between you and '''I'''" for "This is just between you and ''me''" ([[hypercorrection]] to avoid the correct "you and me" form in the predicate of [[Copula (linguistics)|copulative]] sentences, even though "me" is the standard pronoun for the object of a preposition or the object of a verb). "'''Whom''' shall I say is calling?" for "''Who'' shall I say is calling?" (Hypercorrection resulting from the perception that "[[who (pronoun)|whom]]" is a formal version of "who" or that the pronoun is functioning as an object when, in fact, it is subject [One would say, "Shall I say ''who'' is calling?]. The leading pronoun could be an object only if, "say" were used transitively and the sentence were structured thus: "Whom shall I say to be calling?") |- valign="top" |- valign="top" | Catachresis || [[Double negative]]|| "She '''can't hardly''' sleep" for "She ''can hardly'' sleep" (a [[double negative]], as both "can't" and "hardly" have a negative meaning) |- valign="top" |}
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