ADDITIONAL TERMS Flashcards

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Q

Part of sentence are left out to avoid redunduncy

Birds can fly, and I can fly too =
Birds can fly and I too

A

Ellipsis

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Using another word to avoid redundancy

Ex. Frey and Gian have cars. I don’t have one.

(one replaces car)

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Pro-Form

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Deleting a word between two nonidentical subjects

Gian topped the LET, and Frey the civil service Exam

Topped is removed in the second sentence. LET and Civil Service are not the same but parallel

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Gapping

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