Re: The ellipted
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:15:45 GMT
Ron Hardin wrote:
>
> What does it mean if this sounds okay (AP)
>
> Some Members of House Have Fallback Jobs
>
> Financial disclosure forms released Wednesday described the
> deep-pocketed, the politicians existing on salary alone and the
> well-traveled.
>
> The deep-pocketed (...), the politicians existing on salary alone and
> the well-traveled (...). The coordination evidently doesn't have to
> cover all components.
>
> That is, an adjective for the second component ``the hand-to-mouthed''
> is not necessary. So each component must be a noun on its own,
> without a common ellipsis being implied.
Oh, wow! Our little Ronnie is growing up! He can perform syntactic
analysis on Standard English all by himself now!
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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