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A is a literary word but B is casual and everyday word.

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    You need the is, and you need a before word, but not if you're gonna leave out word.
    – John Lawler
    Sep 3 at 21:59
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    You need a before casual.
    – Peter Shor
    Sep 3 at 22:12
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    Casual and everyday are not both needed. If you want shorter, look there.
    – Yosef Baskin
    Sep 4 at 3:40
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    Now I got it. You want to remove is and word. Yes, you can: A is a literary word, but B, casual. Note the comma that signals the gap.
    – Yosef Baskin
    Sep 4 at 3:42
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    It's getting quite tiresome to spend time on an answer only to have the question closed. Is it really more important to close questions than not to alienate contributors? Couldn't the question be bumped to ELL? Not sure what kind of "research" you'd expect the questioner to provide.
    – TimR
    Sep 4 at 12:00

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A is a literary word but B is casual and everyday word.

You can omit word.

A is a literary word but B is casual and everyday.

Note that "everyday" is being used there in a somewhat casual manner. It isn't usually deployed as a predicate adjective after the copula. You could surround it in quotation marks:

A is a literary word but B is casual and "everyday".

Or you could omit word twice and put the words in question inside quotation marks:

"A" is literary but "B" is casual.

Or you could omit the first instance of word and repeat the article:

"A" is a literary but "B" is a casual word.

And you could omit the first word and the second is:

"A" is a literary but "B" a casual word.

That last version is itself a tad literary in style.

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According to hints, the following two sentences are not correct then. [Post updated]

A is a literary word but B is a casual and everyday.

A is a literary word, but B, casual and everyday.

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    "a casual and everyday" isn't idiomatic.
    – TimR
    Sep 4 at 10:29
  • According to Yosef Baskin and Peter Shor, but you misunderstood what PS was saying, You need a before casual he meant the example sentence should have "a casual word" and you should read Baskin's suggestion more carefully, he explained: A is a literary word, but B, casual. which is perfectly grammatical. Your examples are not.
    – Mari-Lou A
    Sep 4 at 11:57

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