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To: FreedomCalls
"My uncle asked the officer, which he didn't know at the time he was a police officer, to leave his property and he didn't," Evans said.

Any grammar mavens out there care to try to diagram this gem? Me, I'm noodling out what figure of speech "which" is here.
49 posted on 01/30/2007 3:00:31 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte; FreedomCalls
"... I'm noodling out what figure of speech "which" is here."

Maybe it's something new, a parenthetical conjunction.

77 posted on 01/30/2007 4:09:05 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Sign says, "No dogs allowed -- except seeing-eye dogs" Why don't they put that sign down lower?)
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