文档介绍：Ellipsis
省略句
Sounds like a good idea.
Pity we live so far from the sea.
Beautiful day, isn’t it?
1)句首省略
省略了句子的主语,有时还连同谓语动词一起省略
Wonder what she is doing.
Forgotten my name?
Nobody at home.
2)答语的省略
---Have you finished your
composition?
---Not yet.
---will you join us?
---I should love to.
Linda has arrived. ---when?
He won’t go to the party.---why not?
3)结构省略
这种省略可以根据通常的语法结构加以判断
We have lived here (for) ten years.
在否定句中不可省略
I haven’t seen you for three months.
Some other examples:
You will never manage essfully (in) that way.
This is the most exciting game (that) I have ever watched.
The train is going (at) fifty miles an hour.
4)不定式的省略
I went there because I want to.
---will you join us?
---Yes I’d love to.
在下列词后常省略不定式但要保留‘to’: want wish like hate hope intend plan love refuse expect
当want 和like用于从句中时,to常常省略。
Come when you want.
I have decided to do what I like.
You can’t force him to get a job if he is not ready (to).
在某些动词后可省略‘to’如:try, 。
---Can you start the car?
---Ok, I will try.
在后一并列分句中凡是与上下文相同的成分通常都要省略
My office was on the tenth floor, and his (office was) on the twelfth (floor).