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ellipsis /ɪˈlɪpsɪs /noun (plural ellipses /ɪˈlɪpsiːz/)1The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues: it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent [mass noun]: an example of ellipsis...- O'Connor gives both analyses (intransitive verb and ellipsis of the object), and I think that the second one is probably right and the first one is probably not.
- As Barbara suggests, if we change Representative Obey's ‘than it was’ to ‘than it did’ then his verb-phrase ellipsis makes sense.
- There are some odd ellipses mixed in with the re-orderings.
1.1A set of dots (...) indicating an ellipsis.There are no ellipses or brackets indicating that substantive edits have been made to the interview transcript....- However, an ellipsis indicates the omission of words which clearly show that the complete passage by Inglis Clark had nothing whatever to do with retrospective laws.
- The ellipsis is include to indicate the presence of the dramatic and disturbing pause.
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek elleipsis, from elleipein 'leave out'. Rhymes paralipsis |