Elliptical Sentence In Open File A Cliff Hardy Novel by Peter Corris

Abstract

Ellipsis is a branch of syntax that studies about elimination of words to avoid repetition in a sentence. This study concerns the types of elliptical sentence and analyze the constituent structures of sentences in the novel by Peter Corris in title Open File A Cliff Hardy. This study applied the theory proposed by Quirk and Greenbaum (1973) to find out the types of elliptical sentence and the theory from Brown and Miller (1991) to analyze the constituent structure of a sentence. The data were collected by documentation method and analyzed descriptively by means of a qualitative method. The finding shows that there are five types of elliptical sentences of which the most dominant is ellipsis of subject (and auxiliary).

Keywords

• elliptical sentence
• sentence structure