ELLIPTICAL SENTENCE

ELLIPTICAL SENTENCE

Elliptical sentence or what is often called the ellipsis or construction is combining the two sentences that have the same elements with the aim to create complex sentences and eliminate repetition of words that are not necessary.

There are two types of merger or elliptical sentence construction that is known today.

1. Merger equivalent Elliptical Sentence

Elliptical constuction with similar types of incorporation using the conjunction "and". Elliptica type of construction which one is divided into two types:

• Positive elliptics, which use the word too and so.

Type positive elliptics merger occurs when two sentences are combined is positive. Example:

• I go to school this morning

• He goes to school this morning

Both sentences above can be combined into:

I go to school this morning, and so does he, or I go to school this morning and he does too

Another example of the positive elliptics are:

• I like my coffee sweet and black

• Rio like his coffee sweet and black

Both of the above sentence could be combined into:

I like my coffee sweet and black, and so is Rio or I like my coffee sweet and black, and Rio is too

• Negative elliptics, which uses the word either and Neither.

Elliptics negative type used when merging the two sentences that combined a negative sentence. Example:

• I do not like coffee

• Susi does not like coffee        

Both of the above sentence could be combined into:

I do not like coffee and Neither does Susi or I do not like coffee and Susi does not either

Other examples:

• He does not go to school

• She does not go to school

Both of the above sentence could be combined into:

He does not go to school and Neither does she or he does not go to school and she does not either

2. Merging the opposite Elliptical Sentence

Elliptical construction opposite type used when merging two sentences that will be combined to have the opposite properties or when one sentence is a positive sentence and another sentence is negative sentences. In this sentence merging models, used conjunctions but and while.

Example:

• I like coffee

• Rio do not like coffee

Both of the above sentence could be combined into:

I like coffee but Rio do not or I like coffee, while Rio do not

Other examples:

• The CEO is estactic about the upcoming project

• The employee does not seem estactic about the upcoming project

Both of the above sentence could be combined into:

The CEO is estactic about the upcoming project but the employee does not or the employee does not seem estactic about the upcoming project while the CEO is.

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