How To Use Ellipsis In A Sentence
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Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.
The Nature Of Proverbs
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One of the most abused punctuation in casual English is perhaps the ellipsis.
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Indeed, due to her ellipsis, instead of remarking on Lisa's masochistic lunacy, we see her faith justified, because this is her proof of her love.
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Then the numbers 1, 11, 2,…, where the ellipsis are filled by a sequence of 1's as needed, solves the puzzle.
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This sounds impressive, but one of the examples my ellipsis hides is ‘birds flying through trees.’
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Idioms reserve some special grammars used in ancient Chinese such as word flexible use, anastrophe and ellipsis which are different from modern Chinese.
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Genuine VP ellipsis construction does not exist in English.
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They are great figures of speech as worthy as simile, metaphor, ellipsis, alliteration, polysyndeton, syndoche of part or whole and a hundred others that we use every day.
Conversing With the Right
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If an ellipsis is used between sentences, four periods are keyboarded, with no space before the first period.
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Genuine VP ellipsis construction does not exist in English.
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In the case of ellipsis and anaphoric (and cataphoric) pronouns the designation is determined, or at least constrained, by the linguistic context of the utterance, while the designation of deictic demonstratives is fixed by contextual extralinguistic facts.
Pragmatics
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The sentence ` He is dead and I alive'contains an ellipsis, ie of the word ` am '.
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The ellipsis is a device long favoured by romance writers: three dots at the end of a sentence that say it all, as this old comedy sketch shows.
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This is very much like paraphrasing or adding an ellipsis in a sentence.
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As a grammatical device for the cohesion of discourse, ellipsis in both the Chinese language and English can be divided into nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis and clausal ellipsis.
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In this textbook we will tolerate a certain amount of ellipsis.
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In my manuscript I had his quote ending with an ellipsis, but the copy editor took out all ellipses in this section and put in periods, so I assume that it is in keeping with standard editorial practices.
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The form of ellipsis includes compound noun, parallel structure, attributive clause, adverbial clause, parentheses, non-finite forms of the verb and transformation of sentences.
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Indeed, in many cases it appears that the ellipsis is interpreted with reference to a content-based representation.
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As Barbara suggests, if we change Representative Obey's ‘than it was’ to ‘than it did’ then his verb-phrase ellipsis makes sense.
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The terms parenthesis, apostrophe, ellipsis, and appositive, which traditionally were rhetorical terms, have been relegated to discussions of punctuation.
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The sentence ` He is dead and I alive'contains an ellipsis, ie of the word ` am '.
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The ellipsis is included to indicate the presence of the dramatic and disturbing pause.
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If something is in quotes in a news story, without any indication of ellipsis, it seems to me that it ought to be a genuine quotation, not a collage of fragments from which hundreds of words have been silently omitted.
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This phenomenon is known as ellipsis and often occurs when clauses are conjuncted.
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And there's what I'll call (in allusion to James Thomson's "Seasons") a "long ellipsis": three periods with spaces in between them to indicate when a sentence or more has been removed.
Archive 2008-05-01
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There exist verb phrase ellipsis constructions in both English and Chinese language ( VP ellipsis constructions ).
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The lantern from Frank's truck cast a bright ellipsis of light.
THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
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The ellipsis indicates that a piece of additional supporting material has been removed from the main DVD blurb, leaving us with a truncated summary of the original concept.
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Indeed, in many cases it appears that the ellipsis is interpreted with reference to a content-based representation.
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Select the Background tab of the Style Builder dialog box, and click the ellipsis button (. ) Next to the Color field to open the Color Picker dialog box.
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Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.
The Nature Of Proverbs
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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.
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Again a shift occurs at the ellipsis: Before it, the doctor speaks monologically, addressing Golyadkin only indirectly.
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Chinese null subjects can be further distinguished as PRO and ellipsis subject.
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We live in a world that has completely lost track of the semicolon, we speak in incomplete sentences, with three little dots of ellipsis understood, because we never find the right word… Life is beautiful, but it has no form.
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That style uses the traditional three periods (or, in proportional typefaces, one ellipsis mark) when a quotation is missing a phrase from within a sentence.
Archive 2008-05-01
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When she puts a comma in a sentence, adds an ellipsis, uses a semi-colon, you can bet it's a punctuation mark that belongs wherever she puts it.
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I've got this kind of gut feeling that using italics, bold, ellipsis, exclamation marks in your writing is lazy.
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And where did the ellipsis in ‘emotional examples of suffering… are good ways to illustrate economic statistic stories’ first appear?
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I heartily agree with Peikos's stickling about the ellipsis mark, as explained at greater length here.
Archive 2009-03-01
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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.
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This article just describes the usages of English ellipsis and how to translate it into Chinese.
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Indeed, in many cases it appears that the ellipsis is interpreted with reference to a content-based representation.
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Normally, a countable noun (like heart) requires a determiner (a, the, my, this …) But ellipsis seems to be quite common in this labelling function.
A is for Articles (2) « An A-Z of ELT
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FYI, the ellipsis in the first sentence above replaced the word ‘mechanical’, which might have given away the dated nature of the text.
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This phenomenon is known as ellipsis and often occurs when clauses are conjuncted.
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There is also a suggestive link with "quasi-right dislocation" 3.4.1, which leads me to speculate that increased use of the person non-specific "innit" may be associated with lower levels of subject ellipsis.
On me, me, me
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The ellipsis is a black hole: a void that attracts everything towards itself.
