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Ellipsis, late and full Tue May 02, 2006 16:32 pm  Ellipsis, late and full
 

Hi!, How are you? Well, thanks for helping me with
my english everyday. Thanks indeed!

Questions:

1.- "Ellipsis". Can I use Ellipsis when the sentence
is ironic. Imagine these two sentences:

a.- "I?m dying, dying... to live forever"
b.- A husband to his wife:

"You always come back home...late at night, of course!"

Is "..." called ellipsis here or not?

2.- "You always come back home late"

Can I use "come back late" to mean
He or She has been out all night long
and got home at 4 a.m,5 a.m and so on ?

3.- If I say "The streets are full of people",
Does it mean "There are lots of people
on the street"? Besides,
Can I omit the definite article "THE"?
By the way, Is there another way to mean that?

Thanks in advance!

Have a nice day!

Jes?s
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ELLIPSIS, LATE and FULL Sat May 06, 2006 0:51 am  ELLIPSIS, LATE and FULL
 

Jes?s wrote:
1.- "Ellipsis". Can I use Ellipsis when the sentence
is ironic. Imagine these two sentences:

a.- "I?m dying, dying... to live forever"
b.- A husband to his wife:

"You always come back home...late at night, of course!"

Is "..." called ellipsis here or not?

Yes, I think so, though here it’s an ellipsis for effect, rather than to indicate an omission (I like to use it a lot myself). The ellipsis is also called suspension point, points of ellipsis or colloquially, dot-dot-dot.

Jesus wrote:
2.- "You always come back home late"

Can I use "come back late" to mean
He or She has been out all night long
and got home at 4 a.m,5 a.m and so on ?

Yes, you can. But perhaps it would be better to say: "come back late at night". Although, if it’s that late, I would say: “You always come back (home) in the small hours/in the wee hours (of the morning)”.



Jesus wrote:
3.- If I say "The streets are full of people",
Does it mean "There are lots of people
on the street"? Besides,
Can I omit the definite article "THE"?
By the way, Is there another way to mean that?

Yes to the first question. No to the second. Yes to the third -- you can say: “The streets are crowded”.
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