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Word | Ellipsis |
omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences / Omission / omission of words from a text / the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. / the act of leaving out one or more words that are not necessary for a phrase to be understood / a sign (such as …) used in printed text to show that words have been left out, | |
Usage | ⇒ In the sentence Ram is deaf but Krishna is not deaf is an ellipses at the end of the sentence ⇒ Sometimes an ellipsis can lead to a dangling modifier, as in the sentence "Once dressed, you should refrigerate the potato salad". ⇒ “Begin when ready” for “Begin when you are ready” is an example of ellipsis. ⇒ O'Connor gives both analyses (intransitive verb and ellipsis of the object), and I think that the second one is probably right and the first one is probably not. |
Synonyms | elision, abbreviation, compression, eclipsis, abridgment, abstract, conciseness, ellipse, epitome, figure of speech, omission, shortening, syncope, contraction, apocope, aposiopesis, apostrophe, banish, brevity, clipping, |
Antonyms | consult, performance, elongate, meticulousness, adherence, execution, observance, |
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