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Syntactic Dislocation — Dislocazione Sintattica·Register Awareness — When to Use Dislocation
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Rule reminder

Syntactic dislocation is characteristic of informal spoken Italian. In formal written Italian, neutral word order is preferred. Dislocation is used to signal shared/old information (topic) or to add an afterthought. It does not appear in academic writing, legal language, or formal reports.

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You are chatting with a friend about a book. You want to say you found it boring. Which is most natural?

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→ Resumptive Pronoun Mastery — Choose the Correct Clitic→ Rewrite as Right Dislocation→ Mixed Dislocation Practice — Left and Right→ Prepositional Dislocation — A, Di, Su, In
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