ellipsis and fragment

7/30/2019 Ellipsis and Fragment

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Elliptical sentences and Fragment sentences

ellipsis

omission

Elliptical construction

Mg Ba: How are you?

Ma Hla: Fine and you?.

I am I am fine.

ow re ou

How are

Elliptical sentences

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Mg Mg can play the piano and Mya Mya, the guitar. (ellipsis)

Mg Mg can play the piano and Mya Mya can play the guitar. (full sentence)

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Mg Mg can play the piano and Mya Mya too. (ellipsis)

Mg Mg can play the piano and Mya Mya can play the piano too. (full sentence)

Mg Mg can play the piano and Mya Mya can too. (ellipsis)

Mg Mg can play the piano and Mya Mya can play the piano too. (full sentence)

She wanted to go there and did. (ellipsis)

She wanted to go there and she went there. (full sentence)

I will clean the room today if you will tomorrow. (ellipsis)


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I will clean the room today if you will clean the room tomorrow. (full sentence)

She wnts me to be doctor, but I dont wnt. (I dont wnt to be doctor.)

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A: Who will come to the party tomorrow?

B: Mr. Brown. (Mr. Brown will come to the party tomorrow.)When does the party start?

A: 5 pm. (The party starts at 5 pm.)Do you come? (Do you come to the party?)

B: No, I dont. (I dont come to the prt.)

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A: I will go to Yangon.

B: When? (When will you go to Yangon?)---

Mr. Brown will come to the prt, but I dont know when. (when he will come to the prt)

She neglects me, but I dont know wh. (wh she neglects me)

A: Would you like to drink more?

B. Wh not (Wh wouldnt I like to drink more?)

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A: She loves Mg Mg.

B: Why Mg Mg?

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I have two books, but she has many. (many books)

I like her book, but she likes mine. (my book)

There re five questions, but I dont know the first nd the third. (the first question nd the

third question)

() (thn

)

She ordered more beer than we could drink. (we could drink beer)She is older than I am. (I am old) She is older than me.

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More people arrived than we expected would arrive. (we expected people would arrive)

More people arrived than we expected.

Fragment sentence


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() Incomplete idea

Because I am ill.

Unless she come.

When she came to Yangon.

I take.

I sleep. He cried.

She is eating a banana.

()

(subject, verb, object, preposition, noun, punctuation

)

I eat.

He is. ()

transitive verb

intransitive verb ditransitive verb

ambitransitive verb

- pass, play, eat, sing, take, kill, see, love, bring, tell, write

All the students passed the exam.

He can play the piano.

She sings songs at karaoke every Sunday night.

- go, work, walk, happen, listen, rain, thunder, flow, rise, arise,

Passive voice

Susan went to school in New York.

I work late on Mondays.She walked very gracefully down the steps.


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passive

voice

The earthquake happened on March 11, 2011. (passive )

The tsunami wave killed hundreds of people. (passive )

- give, buy, bring, lend, offer, send

She gave me a book. (or) She gave a book to me.

My mother bought a watch for me. (or) My mother bought me a watch.

The teacher offered a great new job to me. (or) The teacher offered me a great new job.

Could you please lend me five dollars? (or) Could you please lend five dollars to me?

- read,

(a)I read my newspaper. (Transitive verb)

I always read in bed. (Intransitive verb)

(b) He broke the window. (Transitive verb)

The window broke. (Intransitive verb)

(c) He opens the door. (Transitive verb)

The door opens. (Intransitive verb)

I saw a man who running to the river. ()

I saw a man who is running to the river. ()

I saw a man running to the river. ()

He goes school. ()

He goes to school. ()


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