purpose of this arrangement? Authors may have no single reason for writing the way they do. Moreover, they might not even be able to articulate why they write in a certain way, so that any explanation offered here is both tentative and speculative. Nonetheless, the following reasons seem plausible in explaining the present arrangement. First, the use of resumptive repetition is a technique for showing simultaneous actions, as discussed above. The author wished to indicate contemporaneous action and