From c97d2a10a53664829835eec7027f4de82e63ca3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 97 Examples - Ellipsis I deleted this from the Description section. Here are two examples of elliptical sentences whose missing words are understood by convention. English speakers normally use the shorter forms. * "Fire when ready" means "Fire when you are ready." * "Back to the drawing board" means "We need to go back to the drawing board." Here are three examples of elliptical sentences whose missing words were already used in a previous phrase. * "I drank water, and Bob milk" means "I drank water, and Bob drank milk. * "I drank water, not milk" means "I drank water; I did not drink milk. * "I drank water, and Tom did, too" means "I drank water, and Tom drank water, too." --- jit/figs-ellipsis/01.md | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/jit/figs-ellipsis/01.md b/jit/figs-ellipsis/01.md index fce24d5..a740606 100644 --- a/jit/figs-ellipsis/01.md +++ b/jit/figs-ellipsis/01.md @@ -4,15 +4,6 @@ Ellipsis is the omission of words that would normally be needed to make a sentence complete, but they are understood either by convention or because they were already used in a previous phrase. -Here are two examples of elliptical sentences whose missing words are understood by convention. English speakers normally use the shorter forms. - * "Fire when ready" means "Fire when you are ready." - * "Back to the drawing board" means "We need to go back to the drawing board." - -Here are three examples of elliptical sentences whose missing words were already used in a previous phrase. - * "I drank water, and Bob milk" means "I drank water, and Bob drank milk. - * "I drank water, not milk" means "I drank water; I did not drink milk. - * "I drank water, and Tom did, too" means "I drank water, and Tom drank water, too." - ### Reasons this is a translation issue Readers who see incomplete sentences or phrases may not know what the missing information is if they do not use ellipsis in their language.