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Elliptical Sentence
Be written by :
Deli Fatmawati
Faisal Aditya
Fakultas Psikologi
Dalam menggunakan sebuah bahasa, diharuskan menggunakan tata bahasa yang baik
dan benar sesuai kaidah yang sudah ditentukan. Apabila hal tersebut tidak dipenuhi, maka
pembaca atau pendengar akan kedapatan salah tafsir, dalam bahasa masalah tersebut
dinamai ambiguitas. Penyederhanaan kalimat, ellipsis, termasuk ke dalam gramatikal
tersebut. Oleh karena itu penggunaan dalam penyederhanaan kalimat memiliki peranan
yang sangat signifikan untuk menghindari kesan ambiguitas dalam suatu percakapan atau
pembicaraan.
Elliptical sentence is a merging two sentences which has different in subject, but it
has someness in verb and complement. It can use at writing or speaking in formal
situation. The function of elliptical are for replace a unnecessary word on sentences. By
ellipsis, the sentence looks more beautiful and shorter.
1.1 Definition
Halliday and Hasan (1976: 144) stated that, Ellipsis occurs when something
structurally is lost. The information is clear but it is not written. Meanwhile, syntactic
ellipsis is the nonexpression of a word or phrase that is, nevertheless, expected to occupy
a place in the syntactic structure of a sentence. The elliptical sentences has some kinds,
as positive statements and negative statements.1
According to Quirk et al (1973: 251-253), there are two kinds of ellipsis, namely
ellipsis depending on linguistic context and nonlinguistic context. Elliptical sentences
can be known with some words on the statements. Because it just has some word which
can be used to merge two or some sentences. But it will be valid if the sentences has
sameness in verb and complementation.
1. Too/So
2. Either/Neither
3. Both + and
4. But
And you can also find elliptical sentence in some sentences, examples :
Examples : The police rounded up men (who are/were) known to have been in
the building at that time.
3. Ellipsis in dialogue
The examples :
The examples :
The examples :
The example :
5) The combination positive statement and negative statement with the same tense is
arranged by using pattern but.
The examples :
6) The combination two positive statements which contains verb, noun, etc. in the
same tense is arranged by using conjuction.
Both and
The examples :
7) The other pattern is used to state one of two actions in two sentences with same
tense
The examples :
a. They will speak English every day. They will speak Japan every day
The examples :
References N.B ( You may be able put a footnote in some paragraphs with
references below)
http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/2010/09/writing-grammar-understanding-elliptical-
sentences.html
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/a-guide-to-elliptical-constructions/
http://www.k12reader.com/term/elliptical-clause/
http://www.freeworldu.org/static/grammar/ellipticalsentences.aspx
https://www.scribd.com/doc/154482259/Elliptical-Sentence
Tim Ganesha Operation. 2005. Instan Bahasa Inggris SMA. Jakarta: Erlangga