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4.3.3.1 Nominal Ellipsis

Nominal ellipsis is ellipsis within the nominal group. It is only represented by Numerative. It functions as a Head of ellipsis. It is expressed by numerals or other quantifier words which subcategorized into three classes: ordinal, cardinal and indefinite quantifiers. However, only cardinal which exist in the speeches such as in the following: B 7 Here is the positive side of cyber dating are. 8 The first is, makes new friends. 9 The second is also makes new friends in the same hobby. 10 And the third is saving money and time. 15 And the fourth is relieve nervous There are nine cases of nominal ellipsis in the example above. It is represented by the ordinals the first, the second, the third, and the fourth. The nominal ellipsis in clauses 8, 9, 10, and 15 above presuppos e a single nominal group ‘positive side’ in the preceding clause. They are functioned as Head, for example in clause 8 above, there is an omission item after the word the first 0 which presuppose ‘positive side’ in the previous clause. If it is written completely, it should have been ‘the first positive side of cyber d ating is makes new friends’. The word the first 0 and ‘positive side of cyber dating’ are tied cohesively.

4.3.3.2 Clausal Ellipsis

Clausal ellipsis means ellipsis which misses not only as element within the sentence, but it needs the whole clause to complete the sentence. Generally, this ellipsis is classified into two types: modal ellipsis and propositional ellipsis. Most of the object of this study applied propositional ellipsis to make the cohesiveness in the discourse of their speeches. The following clauses are one of the instances: C 16 And the other fact is 17 that online dating is a multibillion dollar industry. 18 Why? D 20 You don’t have to act “snap” stop smoking in short time. 21 No It is obviously seen that the occurrence why? in C clause 18 resembles for the retrieval of the whole preceding text in order to gain its complete wording. Here, the clause ‘why is online dating a multibillion dollar industry?’. Similarly, the occurrence of No means No, ‘You don’t have to act “snap” stop smoking in short time’. Thus, they are said as anaphoric and provide cohesive effect to the discourse.

4.3.4 Conjunction

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