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EFGU-English For Grown Ups
25 janvier 2016

A criminal arrested but a word still missing - B1

I frequently hear learners of English saying that they don’t read press articles because they can’t even understand the titles. In many cases their failure to understand is due to ELLIPSIS. Ellipsis is the omission of elements which are recoverable from the context or the situation.

Can you spot the missing word in the tweet below?

 

télégraph - ellipsis - 22-01-2016

In this case ‘man’, ‘person’, ‘criminal’ or fugitive would be specially appropriate.

And if you already know what the Subway franchise is, you may make a second ellipsis from that tweet, by omitting ‘sandwich shop’.

 

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