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How can ellipsis be used to improve writing style and fluency?
It makes writing less repetitive and more natural.
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What is one exercise to help students practice recognizing ellipsis?
Provide a dialogue and ask students to fill in the omitted parts.
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Give an example of ellipsis in a coordinated clause.
I have washed the dishes and dried them
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rocket
Go to first place!
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banana
Go to last place!
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Can ellipsis occur at the beginning of a sentence? Why or why not?
Rarely, because English sentence structure generally requires an explicit subject, but yes, it can occur.
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baam
Lose 10 points!
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seesaw
Swap points!
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shark
Other team loses 15 points!
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lifesaver
Give 25 points!
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What are some teaching strategies to help students recognize ellipsis?
Use cloze tests, sentence-completion tasks, and comparative structures.
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eraser
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Double points!
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fairy
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lifesaver
Give 10 points!
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What is situational ellipsis?
Omissions that depend on the situation, not just grammar.
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Which are the types of ellipsis that are non dependant on the linguistic context? Give examples
Situational ellipsis, ex: "(Have you) finished?" and structural ellipsis, ex: "I believe (that) you're right"
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What is the main communicative function of ellipsis?
Its function is to avoid repetition and maintain cohesion and economy in language.
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Which are three types of ellipsis according to their position in the sentence?
Initial, medial and final ellipsis
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What type of ellipsis can you see here? "We wanted fried fish, but they gave us grilled (fish)"
Ellipsis of head of noun phrase in co-ordinated clauses with anaphoric reference
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Analyze the function of ellipsis in: “She went to the party, and he didn’t.”
"didn’t" implies "go to the party"
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What is the difference between anaphoric and cataphoric ellipsis?
Anaphoric refers to backward reference; cataphoric to forward reference.
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What part of the sentence is typically omitted in nominal ellipsis?
The head noun (in nominal ellipsis).
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