AP English Language and Composition 7.3 Passage Drill

what way is the following sentence from lines fourteen Seventeen

an example of an ellipsis And here the potential answers

All right well splitting you know meeting and what else

rhymes with eating All right well this question is asking

us how the sentence is an example of any lips

is no which probably no orderly lips is is well

lips is could mean a bunch things but all the

variations have one thing in common leaving out words like

when you and your best friend can practically read each

other's minds you can figure out what she means without

her even saying it Then we have the lips is

that performed the task of omitted wards on a much

smaller scale like if we point to a piece of

old gum under our desk and say look at that

well we don't need to say what it is for

you to understand us and similar to leaving out one

word there's the exclusion of a non essential phrase like

when we say why do we have gross gum under

our desks And you don't well you confer that we

meant by you don't is you don't have growth gum

under your desk right You get the idea ellipses less

is more so let's get back to the question without

even reading the sentence There are a couple of choices

we can get rid of here Ellipsis is about the

art of brevity That means we can eliminate both a

and see which add rather than take away Now let's

check out sentence They don't really have anything that leaves

a big blank space for us filling on her own

so he doesn't fit The key phrase here is that

is after that is the author continues about common sense

without actually mentioned in common sense That means the answer's

b or to the wise don't try the less is

more trick on your parents when they tell you to

eat your veggies that is unless you like being sent 00:02:07.508 --> [endTime] to your room for fast No