Volume 28, Issue 1 - Careers in medical writing
Good Writing Practice
Authors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat
Abstract
Ellipsis is the absence of a portion of a syntactic unit in a stylistic effort to be succinct. For example, the ellipsis of that, in a noun clause occurring frequently in research writing, often is only a minor distraction (e.g., Smith hypothesised ^ protein A is insulin), because the meaning is evident when the verb is is adjacent to the subject protein.
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