A known grammatical marker of relevance conditionals is their resistance to linking their antecedent and consequent clauses with 'then': consider the mild oddity of 'If you want biscuits then there are some on the table.' […] This peculiarity of relevance conditionals is straightforwardly explained by the ellipsis theory, according to which the consequent clause doesn't in general express a real (logical) consequent; 'There are some biscuits on the table' is just asserted as true.

All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all.

a) Strengthening the organization of fishermen by reorganizing the Kinmen county fishermen's association and establishing five new township FA's at Chinhu, Chinsha,[…] Children of the Chincheng, Chinhu and Joint primary schools have also been supplied with milk.

She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards.