"sentence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Subject-auxiliary inversion is used after the anaphoric particle so, mainly in elliptical sentences.
- She punctuated each of his elliptical sentences with "Yes, Glen," but he seemed not to hear.
- Responses are further classified into those which are full, major sentences, elliptical sentences and minor sentences.
- For negated elliptical sentences, see the elliptical sentences section below.
- Alone in certain exclamations or elliptical sentences, and in certain sentence-modifying expressions:
- Responses to questions are often reduced to elliptical sentences rather than full sentences, since in many cases only the information specially requested needs to be provided.
- Fonseca's voice sounds like chocolate, but she tends to talk in hesitant, elliptical sentences, tailing off into wordless expressions I find hard to read.
- The uncontracted form of an auxiliary or copula must be used in elliptical sentences where its complement is omitted: Who's ready?
- Modals can appear in tag questions and other elliptical sentences without the governed verb being expressed: ...can he?
- In elliptical sentences (see below), inversion takes place after so (meaning "also") as well as after the negative neither: so do I, neither does she.
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