Questions tagged [elision]
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How to analyze the trope "because NOUN" grammatically
In recent years it has become something of a trope to respond to a question with the stark reply "because noun". For example,
Q. Why can't we burn fossil fuels indefinitely?
A. Because ...
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What is the difference between contraction and elision? [closed]
So, what is the difference between the terms? Is it right to say that elision is a specific case of contraction? Another version I've I ran onto was that these were slightly different terms as ...
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What do you think about "Sorry." as a complete sentence? or What are your thoughts on subject omission? [duplicate]
I've been poring over materials on Japanese (日本語) and found it common of them to contrast the language with English in saying that pronominal subjects can be —and typically are, as with 私は (Watashi ha,...
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Omission of "there is" in a clause
Is this an omission (ellipsis)? What is this omission called in linguistics?
What has changed in the interim, to my knowledge, is a huge explosion of self- and mutual-admiration among those who ...
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The construction of "verb1 or verb2" as in "win or lose"
When 'verb1' and 'verb2' are opposite in meaning, can you freely use the construction "verb1 or verb2" to mean "whether + subject + verb1 or verb2", if the meaning of "whether + subject" is ...
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Do I need to add "in" before "an English-speaking country" in this sentence?
1 All my life, I have dreamed of living somewhere overseas, potentially an English-speaking country.
2 All my life, I have dreamed of living somewhere overseas, potentially in an English-speaking ...
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Cockney accent: "a" or "an" before words starting with h? How about "the"?
How do you say "a help" (or the indefinite article followed by another word that starts with a normally non-silent h) with a Cockney accent, which drops word-initial h's? So would you say a elp or an ...
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Is "and" elided in the sentence?
The original sentences:
It was necessary first to arrive at that degree of sophistication
where we no longer set our own belief against our neighbour's
superstition. It was necessary to ...
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"By equating to (something)": Implicit object or typo or bad grammar?
In p.251, "Introduction to statistics and probability for engineers and scientists, Sheldon M.Ross, 6th edition", I found this sentence:
By equating to zero, we obtain that the maximum ...
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Why does the contraction "she's" mean she is or she has? [closed]
I saw this from globalnews.ca:
Molly Johnson on the album she’s always wanted to make
When referring to google ngram, I get 3 possible combinations of she's:
She 's
She's
She has
So my ...
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