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46. Elliptical construction and the problems.

Ellipsis (or elliptical construction ) is the omission of a word or words. It refers to constructions in which words are left out of a

sentence but the sentence can still be understood. Ellipsis helps us avoid a lot of redundancy. In fact there is a lot of

redundancy in language and it can be surprising how much can

be left out without losing much meaning, particularly when there

are contextual clues as to the real meaning. Examples Some examples of ellipsis are listed below: Lacy can do something about the problem, but I don’t know

what (she can do.) She can help with the housework; Nancy can (help with the

housework), too. John can speak seven languages, but Ron can speak only two

(languages.) The words between parentheses can be omitted and the

sentences can still be meaningful.

47. The problem of the number of principal and secondary parts of the sentences.

The structural scheme of an English sentence is rather simple and fixed. It consists of the principal parts (subject and predicate) and the secondary parts (object, attribute, adverbial modifier). This scheme may be elementary (a simple sentence) or sophisticated (a composite sentence) but its syntactic characteristics are generally the same. Two-member sentences and one-member sentences are vivid examples of purely syntactical opposition, though some scholars treat them as examples of ellipsis. In a sentence we distinguish the principal parts, secondary parts and independent elements. The principal parts of a sentence are the subject and the predicate. The independent elements are interjections, direct address and parenthesis. The subject is the principal part of the sentence which is grammatically independent of the other parts of the sentence. The second component is the significant part of the predicate. The first part expresses the verbal categories of person, number, tense, aspect, mood and voice; besides it has a certain lexical meaning of its own.

48. The difference of the one member and two member sentences. We have agreed to term one-member sentences those sentences which have no separate

subject and predicate but one main part only instead. Among these there is the type of sentence whose main part is a noun, the meaning of the sentence being that the thing denoted by the noun exists in a certain place or at a certain time. Such sentences are frequent, for example, in stage directions of

plays. A few examples from modern authors will suffice: Night. A lady's bed-chamber in Bulgaria, in a small town near the Dragoman Pass, late in November in the year 1885. Such sentences bear a strong resemblance to two-member sentences having a present participle for their predicate. It is the context that will show to which of the two types the sentence belongs. In some cases the difference between them may be vague or even completely neutralised. There are some more types of one-member clauses and sentences. Let us consider a few examples of the less common varieties.

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