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When is it allowable to elide “is”?
In an article in The Economist, I have observed the following sentence:
The less positive point out that human rights are routinely abused, freedom of speech is restricted and corruption endemic.
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Can I replace “that is/are (supposed) to” with just “to”?
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
[This method] binds a handler to one or more events to be executed once
for each matched element.
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Is it just a contraction of the following ...
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What's the rule for writing sentences with parallel clauses?
I've sometimes seen very nicely written sentences that have 2 clauses: the first is a full sentence, while the second, which is supposed to have a similar structure, was shorten into a special ...
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What are the uses of ellipses in essays? [closed]
I’m wondering about how ellipses are used in essays. Are there any examples that I could see?
