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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Is this a case of noun ellipsis?
Is this a case of ellipsis?
"Larsson and Mr Mankell are the best-known Nordic crime writers outside the region. But several others are also beginning to gain recognition abroad, including K.O. Dahl and Karin Fossum from Norway"
I was just wondering if the use of "others" is a type of ellipsis. Would you agree that this is a case of noun ellipsis?
"Larsson and Mr Mankell are the best-known Nordic crime writers outside the region. But several others are also beginning to gain recognition abroad, including K.O. Dahl and Karin Fossum from Norway"
I was just wondering if the use of "others" is a type of ellipsis. Would you agree that this is a case of noun ellipsis?
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Anonymous I was just wondering if the use of "others" is a type of ellipsis. Would you agree that this is a case of noun ellipsis? No.
- Anonymous I was just wondering if the use of "others" is a type of ellipsis.
- Would you agree that this is a case of noun ellipsis?
- No.
- Not really.
- "others" is fine as an indefinite pronoun.
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AnonymousI was just wondering if the use of "others" is a type of ellipsis. Would you agree that this is a case of noun ellipsis?No. Not really. "others" is fine as an indefinite pronoun.
True, it means "other writers", but this isn't the sort of thing that is normally called ellipsis because you are not merely leaving out a noun ('writers'). In o
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