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AP English Language and Composition 7.3 Passage Drill. In what way is the following sentence from lines 14-17 and example of an ellipsis?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by unfinished thoughts Those thoughts you
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have that you just sorry but what were we saying
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They're following passage umpteen times Amazing it's umpteen Would that
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be none of those thoughts Okay here's the question in
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what way is the following sentence from lines fourteen Seventeen
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an example of an ellipsis And here the potential answers
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All right well splitting you know meeting and what else
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rhymes with eating All right well this question is asking
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us how the sentence is an example of any lips
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is no which probably no orderly lips is is well
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lips is could mean a bunch things but all the
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variations have one thing in common leaving out words like
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when you and your best friend can practically read each
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other's minds you can figure out what she means without
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her even saying it Then we have the lips is
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that performed the task of omitted wards on a much
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smaller scale like if we point to a piece of
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old gum under our desk and say look at that
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well we don't need to say what it is for
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you to understand us and similar to leaving out one
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word there's the exclusion of a non essential phrase like
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when we say why do we have gross gum under
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our desks And you don't well you confer that we
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meant by you don't is you don't have growth gum
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under your desk right You get the idea ellipses less
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is more so let's get back to the question without
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even reading the sentence There are a couple of choices
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we can get rid of here Ellipsis is about the
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art of brevity That means we can eliminate both a
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and see which add rather than take away Now let's
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check out sentence They don't really have anything that leaves
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a big blank space for us filling on her own
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so he doesn't fit The key phrase here is that
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is after that is the author continues about common sense
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without actually mentioned in common sense That means the answer's
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b or to the wise don't try the less is
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more trick on your parents when they tell you to
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eat your veggies that is unless you like being sent 00:02:07.508 --> [endTime] to your room for fast No
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