Ellipsis with "and"

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Hello,I have a questions about sentences like a:a) I'm sitting here and writing this letter.I feel it has to be:b) I'm sitting here and I'm writing this letter.orc) I'm sitting here writing this letter.Sentence a sounds incorrect to me. Am I wrong?Does anybody know the grammatical term for problems like this? Thanks very muchmaisiedaisie

Terryxpress · Accepted Answer

c) I'm sitting here, (ADD COMMA) writing this letter, when I would much prefer....

Maisiedaisie · Answer

Thanks very much Terryxpress.

Would you say that b is incorrect or that it doesn't make much sense?

maisiedaisie

BarbaraPA · Answer

B is correct. It's just overly wordy.

Terryxpress · Answer

(b) is grammatically correct, but no-one would say that: the meaning is still quite clear if we omit words, and so have (c)

Maisiedaisie · Answer

Thank so much to all of you. You're great!

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