Ellipsis

The omi ion of a word or of words nece ary to complete the grammatical construction, but not nece ary to make the meaning clear, is called an ellipsis . We almost always, whether in speaking or in writing, leave out some of the words nece ary to the full expre ion of our meaning. For example, in dating a letter to-day, we should write, "New York, August 25, 1881," which would be, if fully written out, "I am now writing in the city of New York; this is the twenty-fifth day of August, and this month is in the one you sand eight hundred and eighty-first year of the Christian era." "I am going to Wallack's" means, "I am going to Wallack's theatre ." "I shall spend the summer at my aunt's"; i. e., at my aunt's house . By supplying the ellipses we can often discover the errors in a sentence, if there are any.