Лекции по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 84 стр.

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out, which can be unambiguously inferred from the context. The main sphere of

elliptical sentences is dialogue.

e.g. Where are you going? – To the movies.

In terms of structure the following types of elliptical sentences are singled

out:

a) omission of the subject: e.g. Hope to see you soon.

b) omission of the predicate in patterns with there is, there are, e. g. Too

many mistakes, I am afraid.

c) omission of auxiliary, copulative and other function verbs, e. g. You like it

here?

d) omission of the subject and auxiliary verb, e. g. Hear me?

e) omission of the subject and the copula-verb, e. g. Glad to see you again.

Classification of sentences according to prof. Pocheptsov

Prof. Pocheptsov

suggests the following classification of sentences.

All sentences are divided into sentences proper and quasi-sentences.

Sentences proper are communications, they have the subject-predicate base

and differ in the way they relate contents to reality.

Quasi-sentences are not communications, they do not have the subject-

predicate base. These are either vocatives (John), or interjectional sentences

expressing emotions (Oh), or meta-communicative sentences used to open or close

a speech contact (Good day). Quasi-sentences are granted the status of sentences

just because they can substitute for sentences in the flow of speech being

characterized by separateness and acquiring intonational characteristics of the

sentence.