Ellipsis
Ashley is managing the club Thursday, and Sam is Friday.
From: https://www.thoughtco.com/ellipsis-grammar-and-rhetoric-1690640
In the ThoughtCo. website, they say the clause and Sam is Friday in Ashley is managing the club Thursday, and Sam is Friday is correct.
My understanding is that the clause Sam is Friday is syntactically correct, though, semantically, it is a nonsense.
Doesn't the implied ellipsis make a confusion in the sentence?
Top answer
anonymous My understanding is that the clause Sam is Friday is syntactically correct, though, semantically, it is a nonsense. I don't see nonsense. No set of words in a row has meaning aside from what we can interpret from them, whatever the syntax, and this meaning is clear once you've divined it.
- anonymous My understanding is that the clause Sam is Friday is syntactically correct, though, semantically, it is a nonsense.
- I don't see nonsense.
- No set of words in a row has meaning aside from what we can interpret from them, whatever the syntax, and this meaning is clear once you've divined it.
- anonymous Doesn't the implied ellipsis make a confusion in the sentence?
- make for a confused sentence I am not in love with it.
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anonymousMy understanding is that the clause Sam is Friday is syntactically correct, though, semantically, it isanonsense.
I don't see nonsense. No set of words in a row has meaning aside from what we can interpret from them, whatever the syntax, and this meaning is clear once you've divined it.
0anonymousconfusion in the sentence?
Maybe a bit. I would have written it as
Ashley is managing the club on Thursday, and Sam(,) on Friday.
with an optional comma after "Sam" — only because it reads better that way.
CJ
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