52024,8:S1 AM ‘Oxfocd- Aim High $ Students Book Pages 150 - Flip PDF Dowload! FipHTMLS CS aga et 104 lipsis with either / too Ellipsis is when we omit words in order ‘where the meaning is already clear. to ae ou? ~ mm) Karen. ea he wa Fer, btn ft be wast (French. ‘Acommon form of ellipsis Isto use the aualary verb on its ‘own, without the main verb, You said that youd yp, bt you haven (led up) ‘We can use the aurliary to replace an entre phrase. The ‘whole a the phrase following the auliay verb is omitted. {rte to ry al the deere on the rer, but cou’ (ry al the desserts on the men) ‘Where there is no auxiliary, we use a form of do. ie a going to came round, but he Aidt (come round) Ellipsis is used very frequently inthis way with either and f0. ‘We use either and too at the end ofa sentence to agree with ‘what someone else has said. avoid repetition, or ‘When agreeing witha negative fst statement, we use either ‘and a negative verb. cant sim = cn, ete We hove get any money = ae have, athe ‘When agreing witha positive fist statement, we use too and a postive ver. We teed afte fate =e, to, i wo oy, what Fe raw a gas of Wemonade ~ ul, Wo, ‘Aform of dois used when there is no auxlary. ur cat deer We geting wet. ~ Ours doe, ether (My grandad loved las ob We it wart ore = Mine dt, ‘ther there is more than one auiliary verb, we often only use the {ist one ifthe second one has already been used. ur bi fat been emp i ~ Os have, te. ‘We don't use ether or f00 when the second statement conrad the ts one. Fin hogy ~ Fn nt We vet bret ay ney wth t= Oa wey, We have ‘otf pope beeve UFOs ~ We dont ‘Grammar Reference « Unit naps ph. comvouniipavasic Ellipsis in comparisons ‘+ We can use ellipsis in comparative structures such as more, less and as... as, the meaning is clear without them. ‘Weve gets homenort to dota they have (got to do) ‘If we decide to omit the ver following than oF as. 8, we must use an object pronoun. ‘weve go lets homeware to do tn them, NOT We've got less homework todo than they. ‘he es hewn a8 ih 368. / Sees te sa a much a we do, ‘+ After as and than, we can omit the subject and verb if they are ‘the same a in the First cla We've ried ore money than (we raised) le yer. (OR. than we did last year) “Toy wae atthe same camp se ab hey stayed at) etre (OR. asthey did before) Ye can seat oh ware Aen! Freeh than (he could speak) » ‘emote agp (OR... than he coulda few months ago) ‘+ Rather than repeat a whole infinitive, we can simply use to" instead, ‘he rete fm nt gong cae | doit wat Yo (go) ‘+ This also tre in comparative sentences where the verb is the same in each clause, "Bn bought more bread thon be needed Yo (buy) ‘= Asand thom can replace subjects in a clause. Tis occurs very ‘commonly when we might expect tto be the subject ofthat dause. “You can we the ca a ich a6 He cossary NOT. t mich 6 is mcr ‘She dies more evere than We considered advisable. NOT shan conde abel {nthe two examples above, we could omit ‘is ‘© Asand than also function as objects ina clause. “The company made less money than hey made Lt yr. NOT The company ate ees monty than they made ae! year ‘ope ere happy 0 dora au many monte es a we ceeded, NOT eope were happy oder as any ited tes a6 we recded ter owns52024,8:S1 AM GRAMMAR BUILDER 6 ‘Oxfocd- Aim High $ Students Book Pages 150 - Flip PDF Dowload! FipHTMLS Ellipsis with either /too 1 Complete the sentences with either too or nothing (). 1 {can't leave now. John can't 2 Why are you so sad? ~ "'m not 3 Tm eally happy. - 1am, 4 haven't gota ticket forthe concert. ‘haven't 5 Tveaticket forthe concert ~ 1 haven't {6 We both love The Zone's new album. ~ We do, 7 Suzy can play the guitar. ~ John can" {8 Joe went tothe festival last year. ~ id, 2 Complete the dialogue with expressions from the box. ‘am, too would, too “minot can’t ether didn’, either don"t can do, too ‘Megan | like our new school. Cathy Yes, think the meals are reat. ‘Megan Fd rather eat at home. Cathy 1 but there's nobody at home at lunchtime, so can't. ‘Megan No, ‘Anyway 'm really pleased we've got nice teachers. caty 1 | didn’ tke al the teachers at our old school Megan | Everyone seems really great. fm not ‘worried about making new fiends here. either. In fact, I can’t walt for next necessary. Add one word 4 ve done all my revision. 5 ve been chosen for the fotball eam, 66 The fire alarm went off yesterday day before. 7 We haven’ lived inthis town for very long. We 8 | didn't have lunch at school yesterday. ‘was the naps ph. comvouniipavasic 4 Complete the sentences with expressions from the box. an can you had youwould yours are youhave ‘others do did you ae We'd enjoyed the party as much as —__. can jump higher than ‘Some people take more interest inthe environment than 44 Vim as unhappy about the situation as__. 5. My parents are alot older than. 6 dike to go onthe school tip as much as 7 Tina studied harder for her exams than, 8B We've got as much right tobe here a 5 Use ellipsis to shorten the sentences as much as possible. Don't change any ofthe words. 1 Only take as much money as itis necessary to take. 2 She's tying a ot harder than she did ast term. 3 We didn't buy as much ice ceam as we were supposed to buy. 4 The guitar isn't as dificult to leam as the piano is. 5 You've given me the same birthday card as you gave me. last year! 6 Don't pack more clothes than you need to pack. 7 Hei alt more mobile than he was after he left hospital 8 You've got more time to spare than we've got ime to spare. 6 There is one error in each sentence. Correct them. 1 She ate more fast food than it was considered advisable. 2 The reason she isnt going to university is because she doesn't want, 3-1 ke Luey as much a they. 4 Nobody likes camping more than Joho kes. '5 We played more tenis this summer than we played it lastyear 6 Tom wouldn't need to lose as much weight as Chris would have 7 Everyone brought more food than they did need 8 We don’t go to the gym as often as him does. sosin3