Лекции по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 96 стр.

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He is not coming tonight, is he? – I hope not.

Ellipsis (опущение) takes place when a structurally needed element of the

construction is not explicitly used but only implied. The omitted element can be

restored from the context.

e.g. It seems so strange! – It is!

Conclusion:

Accepting the elementary sentence and the syntactic process as

important syntactic notions, we can conclude that a sentence, on the one hand, is a

construction whose structure is built according to the language system, and on the

other, the structure of the sentence can be expanded and reduced according to

specific communication needs and conditions.