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An ellipsis is an omission of words from a clause, or the punctuation mark "..."

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'to'-infinitive without the verb

In your examples, (1) is known as VP ellipsis and (2) is VP elision (although, not correctly formed: it should be 'He asked me to go, but I don't want to do so.'). Both are phenomena found in other la …
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