The document defines elliptical structure as joining two sentences by omitting parts to make them shorter without changing the meaning. It describes three types of elliptical structures: positive-positive, negative-negative, and positive-negative. For each type, it provides examples of the sentence patterns and sample sentences showing how the structure works.
5.
EXAMPLE
You bought a new book. She bought a new
book.
=> You bought a new book, and she did too.
=> You bought a new book, and so did she.
6.
NEGATIVE + NEGATIVE
Pattern:
Negative sentence, and + Subject + auxiliary + not +
either.
Negative sentence, and + neither + auxiliary +
Subject.
7.
EXAMPLE
I don’t like smoking. He doesn’t like smoking.
=> I don’t like smoking, and he doesn’t either.
=> I don’t like smoking, and neither does he.
